# argot
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from French argot, of unknown origin.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈɑːɡəʊ/
* (US) IPA: /ˈɑɹɡoʊ/, /ˈɑɹɡət/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɑːɹɡəʊ

### Noun

argot (plural argots)
* A secret language or conventional slang peculiar to thieves, tramps and vagabonds.
    Synonyms: cant, jargon, slang
** 2012, Stephen King, 11/22/63, p. 338-9:
    Sadie had, in the argot of the day, a really good built.
* The specialized informal vocabulary and terminology used between people with special skill in a field, such as between doctors, mathematicians or hackers.
    Synonym: jargon
    The conversation was in the argot of the trade, full of acronyms and abbreviations that made no sense to the uninitiate.

#### Derived terms

* argotic

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* groat, gator, gotra, Groat, RATOG, 'gator

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from French argot.

### Pronunciation

* Rhymes: -ɔt

### Noun

argot m (plural argots)
* slang, argot
* jargon

#### Further reading

* “argot” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## French
### Etymology

Of obscure origin, first attested in 1628.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aʁ.ɡo/, (older, now chiefly Belgium) /aʁ.ɡɔ/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -o, -ɔ

### Noun

argot m (plural argots)
* slang
** 1862, Victor Hugo, chapter 1, in Les Misérables, Tome IV : L’idylle rue Plumet et l’épopée rue Saint-Denis, book 7:Qu’est-ce que l’argot ? C’est tout à la fois la nation et l’idiome ; c’est le vol sous ses deux espèces, peuple et langue.(please add an English translation of this quotation)
* cant (secret language)

#### Derived terms

* argotier
* argotique
* argotisme
* argotiste
* argotologie

#### Descendants

* → Catalan: argot
* → English: argot
* → Galician: argot
* → German: Argot
* → Greek: αργκό (argkó)
* → Hungarian: argó
* → Italian: argot
* → Polish: argot
* → Portuguese: argot
* → Romanian: argou
* → Russian: арго́ (argó)
* → Spanish: argot
* → Turkish: argo
* → Danish: argot

### Further reading

* argot on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{fr}$
* “argot”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* ragot

## Polish
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French argot.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /arˈɡɔ/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔ
* Syllabification: ar‧got

### Noun

argot m inan or n (indeclinable)
* (linguistics, literary) argot, jargon, slang
    Synonyms: gwara, slang, żargon

#### Declension

Indeclinable
or

#### Derived terms

* argotyzm

### Further reading

* argot in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* argot in Polish dictionaries at PWN

### Anagrams

* grota

## Portuguese
### Alternative forms

* argô (rare)

### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French argot.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /aʁˈɡo/ [aɦˈɡo]
* (Brazil) IPA: /aʁˈɡo/ [aɦˈɡo]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /aɾˈɡo/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /aʁˈɡo/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /aɻˈɡo/
* (Portugal) IPA: /aɾˈɡo/ [aɾˈɣo]

### Noun

argot m (plural argots)
* (linguistics) argot (a secret language used by thieves, tramps and vagabonds)
    Synonym: calão
* (linguistics) argot (specialised vocabulary and terminology of a field)
    Synonym: jargão

### References

* ↑ “argot”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
* ↑ “argot”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from French argot.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aɾˈɡot/ [aɾˈɣ̞ot̪]
* Rhymes: -ot
* Syllabification: ar‧got

### Noun

argot m (plural argot)
* slang, argot
    Synonym: jerga

#### Further reading

* “argot”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10