# argentum
## Indonesian
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin argentum (“silver”).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Indonesian) IPA: /arˈɡentum/ [arˈɡen.t̪ʊm]
* Rhymes: -entum
* Syllabification: ar‧gen‧tum

### Noun

argentum (plural argentum-argentum)
* (formal, mostly used in scientific contexts) silver
    Synonym: perak

### Further reading

* “argentum” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Latin
### Alternative forms

* ☽tum (alchemy)

### Etymology

From Proto-Italic *argentom n, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂r̥ǵn̥tóm n.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /arˈɡen.tum/, [ärˈɡɛn̪t̪ʊ̃ˑ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /arˈd͡ʒen.tum/, [ärˈd͡ʒɛn̪t̪um]

### Noun

argentum n (genitive argentī); second declension
* (uncountable) silver (metal, element)
** Tacitus Germania, chapter 5 (translation M. Hutton).
    Argentum et aurum propitiine an irati di negaverint dubito.
       The gods have denied them gold and silver, whether in mercy or wrath I find it hard to say.
* (by extension) a silver thing

#### Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

#### Hyponyms

* argentum pustulatum, pustulatum (refined silver)

#### Derived terms

* argentāria f (“bank-counter”)
* argentārium n
* argentārius m (“banker”)
* argentātus
* argenteus
* argentīfodīna f
* Argentīnus m
* argentīnus
* argentōsus
* argentum vīvum n (“quicksilver, mercury”)

#### Related terms

* Argentina f

#### Descendants

* Insular Romance:
** Sardinian: arghentu (Logudorese), argentu (Campidanese)
* Balkan Romance:
** Megleno-Romanian: arzint, arzintu, răzint
** Romanian: argint
** → Albanian: argjend
*** → Aromanian: argheandu
* Italo-Dalmatian:
** Corsican: argentu
    Gallurese: algentu
** Dalmatian: arziant
** Italian: argento, ariento (obsolete)
** Sicilian: argentu, arjentu (dated)
** Venetan: arxento
* Rhaeto-Romance:
** Friulian: arint
** Romansch: argient, argien (Sursilvan)
* Gallo-Italic:
** Ligurian: argénto
** Lombard: arsgent, arzent
** Piedmontese: argent
** Romagnol: arẓént
* Gallo-Romance:
** Catalan: argent
** Old French: argent (see there for further descendants)
** Old Occitan: argent, argen
*** Occitan: argent
*** → Old Spanish: argent
* Ibero-Romance:
** Aragonese: archent
** Old Leonese:
*** Asturian: arxén, arxentu
** Old Galician-Portuguese: arento
** Old Spanish: ariento
* Borrowings:
** → Galician: arxento
** → Malay: argentum
** → Portuguese: argento
** → Spanish: argento

#### See also

* argī̆lla f

### References

* “argentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “argentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* "argentum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* argentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. coined money; bullion: aes (argentum) signatum silver plate: argentum (factum) (Verr. 5. 25. 63)
* “argentum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “argentum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

## Malay
### Alternative forms

* ارݢينتوم

### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin argentum, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂r̥ǵn̥tóm, n-stem form of Proto-Indo-European *h₂erǵ-.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [a(r)ɡɛntom], [a(r)ɡɛntəm], [a(r)d͡ʒɛntəm]
* Rhymes: -tom, -om

### Noun

argentum (Jawi spelling ارݢينتوم)
* silver (metal)

#### Usage notes

* Usually used in scientific contexts compared to perak.

#### Synonyms

* perak / ڤيرق
* fidah / فضة