argent

• arg., a. (heraldry)

From Middle English argent, from Old French argent (“silver”), from Latin argentum (“white money, silver”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɑːdʒənt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɑɹd͡ʒənt/
• Hyphenation: ar‧gent

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)dʒənt

argent (countable and uncountable, plural argents)

1. (archaic) The metal silver.
2. (heraldry) The white or silver tincture on a coat of arms.

   argent:  

   • 1909, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, A Complete Guide to Heraldry:

     The metals are gold and silver, these being termed "or" and "argent".

3. (obsolete, poetic) Whiteness; anything that is white.
   • 1842, Alfred Tennyson, “A Dream of Fair Women”, in Poems. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:

     The polish'd argent of her breast.

4. A moth of the genus Argyresthia.

argent (not comparable)

1. Of silver or silver-coloured.
   • 1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], epistle I, London: Printed for J[ohn] Wilford, […], →OCLC, page 5, lines 49–50:

     Or ask of yonder argent fields above, / Why Jove's Satellites are leſs than Jove?

2. (heraldry): of white or silver tincture on a coat of arms.
   • 1889, Charles Norton Elvin, A Dictionary of Heraldry:

     ... when the shield is argent, it is shown in an engraving by being left plain.

• blanc, silver

• Ag (chemical symbol for silver)

• Appendix:Colors

• 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the book number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

  Those argent Fields more likely habitants, / Translated Saints, or middle Spirits hold / Betwixt th' Angelical and Human kinde

• 1818, John Keats, “(please specify the page)”, in Endymion: A Poetic Romance, London: […] [T. Miller] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC:

  she did soar / So passionately bright, my dazzled soul / Commingling with her argent spheres did roll / Through clear and cloudy

• 1818, John Keats, “(please specify the page)”, in Endymion: A Poetic Romance, London: […] [T. Miller] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC:

  Pardon me, airy planet, that I prize / One thought beyond thine argent luxuries!

• 1818, Two wings this orb / Possess'd for glory, two fair argent wings — John Keats, Hyperion
• 1819, At length burst in the argent revelry, / With plume, tiara, and all rich array, / Numerous as shadows haunting fairily / The brain — John Keats, The Eve of St Agnes
• 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC:

  "A castle argent is certainly my crest," said he blandly.

• 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:

  Like John o'Gaunt his name is dear to him, as dear as the coat and crest he toadied for, on a bend sable a spear or steeled argent, honorificabilitudinitatibus, dearer than his glory of greatest shakescene in the country.

• 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:

  Keep our flag flying! An eagle gules volant in a field argent displayed.

• 1967, Argent I craft you as the star / Of flower-shut evening — John Berryman, Berryman's Sonnets

• Garnet, Gretna, Tanger, garnet, gerant

Inherited from Latin argentum.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ərˈʒen]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ərˈʒent]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [aɾˈd͡ʒent]

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• Hyphenation: ar‧gent

argent m (uncountable)

1. silver

   Synonym: plata

2. (heraldry) argent
3. (figurative) money, cash

   Synonyms: calé, diner

• “argent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “argent”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “argent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “argent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Inherited from Latin argentum.

argent m (ORB)

1. silver
2. money
3. fortune, riches

• argent in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• argent in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

Inherited from Middle French argent, from Old French argent, from Latin argentum (according to the TLFi etymological dictionary, a borrowing), itself from Proto-Italic *argentom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂r̥ǵn̥tóm, from *h₂erǵ- (“white”).

• IPA^(key): /aʁ.ʒɑ̃/

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• Hyphenation: ar‧gent

argent m (plural argents)

1. silver
2. money, cash

   Synonyms: oseille, fric, thune, pognon, liquide, blé, peso, rond, pèze, sous, flouze, bifton, biff, mitraille

3. (heraldry) argent (white in heraldry)

• Haitian Creole: ajan
• Louisiana Creole: larjên

• “argent”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• “argent” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
• “argent” in Dico en ligne Le Robert.

• ganter
• garent
• gérant
• grenat
• ragent
• régnât
• Tanger

From Old French argent.

argent m (plural argens or argentz)

1. silver (metal)
2. silver (color)

• French: argent
  • Haitian Creole: ajan
  • Louisiana Creole: larjên

• ergent (continental Normandy)
• ardjã (Sark)

From Old French argent, from Latin argentum (possibly a borrowing), itself from Proto-Italic *argentom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂r̥ǵn̥tóm, from *h₂erǵ- (“white”).

argent m (uncountable)

1. silver
2. (Jersey) snow-in-summer

• argent comptant (“cash”)
• argentchi (“silversmith”)
• vif-argent (“mercury, quicksilver”)

From Old Occitan argent, from Latin argentum.

• (Lengadocian) IPA^(key): [aɾˈd͡ʒen]
• (Lemosin) IPA^(key): [aʁˈd͡zɛ̃ⁿ]

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argent m (plural argents)

1. silver

• arjant

From Latin argentum.

• IPA^(key): (early) /aɾˈd͡ʒent/
• IPA^(key): (late) /aɾˈʒant/

argent oblique singular, m (oblique plural argenz or argentz, nominative singular argenz or argentz, nominative plural argent)

1. silver (metal)
2. silver (color)

• Middle French: argent
  • French: argent
    • Haitian Creole: ajan
    • Louisiana Creole: larjên
• Norman: argent, ergent, ardjã
• Walloon: ardjint
• → Middle English: argent
  • English: argent

• argen

From Latin argentum.

argent m (oblique plural argents, nominative singular argents, nominative plural argent)

1. silver

• Occitan: argent
• → Old Spanish: argent

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “argentum”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 25: Refonte Apaideutos–Azymus, page 192

From Old Occitan argent, from Latin argentum, from Proto-Italic *argentom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂r̥ǵn̥tóm.

• IPA^(key): /aɾˈʒent/

argent m (usually uncountable)

1. silver

   Synonym: plata f

   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 55v:

     cuemos torno putána la cibdad fidel plena de iudicios : iuſticia manie enella e agora homicidio. To argent es tónado eſcoria to uino es buelto en agua.

     How the faithful city full of righteousness has become a harlot! Justice dwelt within her, but now murder. Your silver has become dross and your wine has turned into water.