different between argentic vs argent

English

Adjective

argentic (not comparable)

1. Of, pertaining to or containing silver.
2. (chemistry) Of certain compounds, containing silver in a lower proportion than in argentous compounds.

Synonyms

• (of, pertaining to or containing silver): argentous, silvery

Derived terms

• argentic chloride

Translations

See also

• argentous

Anagrams

• catering, citrange, creating, creäting, reacting, reäcting

English

Alternative forms

• arg., a. (heraldry)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???d??nt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???d??nt/
• Hyphenation: ar?gent
• Rhymes: -??(?)d??nt

Noun

argent (countable and uncountable, plural argents)

1. (archaic) The metal silver.
2. (heraldry) The white or silver tincture on a coat of arms.
   • 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.
   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, A Dream of Fair Women

     The polish'd argent of her breast.

Translations

Adjective

argent (not comparable)

1. Of silver or silver-coloured.
2. (heraldry): of white or silver tincture on a coat of arms.

Synonyms

• blanc, silver

Translations

Derived terms

Related terms

• Ag (chemical symbol for silver)

See also

• Appendix:Colors

Quotations

• 1667, Those argent Fields more likely habitants, / Translated Saints, or middle Spirits hold / Betwixt th' Angelical and Human kinde — John Milton, Paradise Lost
• 1817, she did soar / So passionately bright, my dazzled soul / Commingling with her argent spheres did roll / Through clear and cloudy — John Keats, Endymion
• 1817, Pardon me, airy planet, that I prize / One thought beyond thine argent luxuries! — John Keats, Endymion
• 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,"A castle argent is certainly my crest," said he blandly. — Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles
• 1922, 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. — James Joyce, Ulysses
• 1922, Keep our flag flying! An eagle gules volant in a field argent displayed. — James Joyce, Ulysses
• 1967, Argent I craft you as the star / Of flower-shut evening — John Berryman, Berryman's Sonnets

Anagrams

• Garnet, Gretna, Tanger, garnet, gerant

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan argent, from Latin argentum.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /????ent/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?r??en/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /a??d??ent/
• Hyphenation: ar?gent

Noun

argent m (uncountable)

1. silver

   Synonym: plata

2. (heraldry) argent

Further reading

• “argent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “argent” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “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.

French

Etymology

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 *h?r??n?tóm, from *h?er?- (“white”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?.???/
• (Paris) IPA^(key): /æ??õ/
• Hyphenation: ar?gent

Noun

argent m (plural argents)

1. silver
2. money, cash
3. (heraldry) argent (white in heraldry)

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• Haitian Creole: ajan

References

Further reading

• “argent” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

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

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French argent.

Noun

argent m (plural argens or argentz)

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

Descendants

• French: argent
  • Haitian Creole: ajan

Norman

Alternative forms

• ergent (continental Normandy)
• ardjã (Sark)

Etymology

From Old French argent, from Latin argentum (possibly a borrowing), itself from Proto-Italic *argentom, from Proto-Indo-European *h?r??n?tóm, from *h?er?- (“white”).

Noun

argent m (uncountable)

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

Derived terms

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

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan argent, from Latin argentum.

Pronunciation

• (Lengadocian) IPA^(key): [a??d??en]
• (Lemosin) IPA^(key): [a??d?z???]

Noun

argent m (plural argents)

1. silver

Old French

Alternative forms

• arjant

Etymology

From Latin argentum, according to the TLFi etymological dictionary, an early borrowing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ar?d?ent/

Noun

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

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

Descendants

• Middle French: argent
  • French: argent
    • Haitian Creole: ajan
• Norman: argent, ergent, ardjã
• Walloon: ardjint
• ? Middle English: argent
  • English: argent

References

Old Occitan

Alternative forms

• argen

Etymology

From Latin argentum.

Noun

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

1. silver

Descendants

• Catalan: argent
• Occitan: argent
• ? Old Spanish: argent

References

• von Wartburg, Walther (1928–2002) , “argentum”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 250, page 192

Old Spanish

Etymology

From Old Occitan argent, from Latin argentum, from Proto-Italic *argentom, from Proto-Indo-European *h?r??n?tóm.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [a????nt]

Noun

argent m (usually uncountable)

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

   Synonym: plata f