# Argentine
## English
### Etymology

From Old French argentin (“silvery”), from Latin argentum (“silver”).

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɑː.dʒən.taɪn/, /ˈɑː.dʒən.tiːn/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Adjective

Argentine (not comparable)
* Of, from, or pertaining to Argentina or its people.
    Synonyms: (rare) Argentinan, Argentinean, Argentinian
** 2011 October 1, Saj Chowdhury, “Wolverhampton 1 - 2 Newcastle”, in BBC Sport‎:Argentine midfielder Jonas Gutierrez added a superb second when he surged past four challenges to fire in low.

#### Translations
### Noun

Argentine (plural Argentines)
* A citizen or descendant abroad of Argentina.
    Synonyms: (rare) Argentinan, Argentinean, Argentinian
** 2006 June 11, Jonathan Kandell, “Buenos Aires Beef, on Hoof and on Plates”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:"Rich as an Argentine" was a phrase my Brooklyn grandfather often repeated to my bewilderment.
* (dance) Ellipsis of Argentine tango.

#### Translations
### Proper noun

Argentine
* (archaic, with "the") Argentina.
* (obsolete) Strasbourg (city in France).
** 1610 October, John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of Matters Most Speciall and Memorable, Happening in the Church, with an Vniuersall Historie of the Same. […], 6th edition, volume I, London: […] [Humphrey Lownes] for the Company of Stationers, →OCLC, book VI, page 650, column 1:The first inuenter thereof (as most agree) is thought to be a Germaine, dwellyng first in Argentine, afterward Citizen of Mentz, named John Faustus, a goldsmith.
** 1624, Patrick Symson, The Historie of the Church Since the Dayes of Our Saviour Iesus Christ untill this present Age […], page 178:[…] and the Ambassadour for the Citie of Argentine was not suffered to sit in the Councell, because that Cittie had disanulled the Masse.
** 1629 [1619], Paolo Sarpi, translated by Nathaniel Brent, The Historie of the Councel of Trent […]‎, London: Bonham Norton and John Bill, →OCLC, book 1, paragraph 61, page 27:[…] they deemed no remedy more commodious, effectuall, and opportune, than if his Holines, by the Emperours consent, would call a godly, free, and Christian Councell, so soone as it were possible, in some conuenient place in Germanie; that is, in Argentine, in Mentz, Collen, or Metz, […]
* A current place name:
** A neighbourhood of Kansas City, Kansas, named after a silver smeltery.
** A township and census-designated place therein, in Genesee County, Michigan.
** A township in Fall River County, South Dakota.
** A commune in Savoie department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.

#### Translations
### Derived terms

* Argentinean
* Argentine black and white tegu
* Argentine giant tegu
* Argentine Sea
* Argentinian
* Argentino

### Related terms

* Argentina

### Anagrams

* Tangerine, antigreen, intragene, tangerine

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tin/
* Homophone: Argentines
* Audio:(file)

### Proper noun

Argentine f
* Argentina (a country in South America)

#### Descendants

* →? Japanese: アルゼンチン (Aruzenchin)
* → Persian: آرژانتین (âržântin)

### Noun

Argentine f (plural Argentines)
* female equivalent of Argentin

### Further reading

* “Argentine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* gainèrent, régnaient