different between blanc vs argent

English

Etymology

French blanc (“white”). Doublet of blank.

Noun

blanc (countable and uncountable, plural blancs)

1. A white cosmetic.
2. A white sauce of fat, broth, and vegetables, used especially for braised meat.

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan blanc, from Late Latin, Vulgar Latin *blancus (compare Occitan and French blanc, Spanish blanco, Portuguese branco, Italian bianco), from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“bright, shining, blinding, white”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhleg- (“to shine”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?bla?k/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?bla?/

Adjective

blanc (feminine blanca, masculine plural blancs, feminine plural blanques)

1. white

Derived terms

• arma blanca
• blancor
• blanquejar
• bròquil blanc
• carta blanca
• ós blanc
• paloma blanca
• vi blanc

Noun

blanc m (plural blancs)

1. white
2. target (for shooting practice)
3. blank (empty space)

See also

Further reading

• “blanc” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Dalmatian

Alternative forms

• blank

Etymology

From Late Latin *blancus (compare Italian bianco, French blanc, Spanish blanco, Portuguese branco), from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“bright, shining, blinding, white”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhleg- (“to shine”).

Adjective

blanc m (plural blance, feminine blanca)

1. white

Synonyms

• jualb

References

• Bartoli, Matteo Giulio (1906) Il Dalmatico: Resti di un’antica lingua romanza parlata da Veglia a Ragusa e sua collocazione nella Romània appenino-balcanica, Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, published 2000

Franco-Provençal

Etymology

From Late Latin *blancus.

Adjective

blanc m (feminine singular blanchi, masculine plural blancs, feminine plural blanches)

1. white

French

Etymology

From Middle French blanc, from Old French blanc, from Late Latin, Vulgar Latin *blancus, a borrowing of Frankish *blank, from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“bright, shining, blinding, white”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?ley?- (“to shine”). Akin to Old High German blanch "bright, white" (German blank "polished, naked"), Old Norse blankr "white" (Danish blank "bright, shiny"), Dutch blank "white, shining". More at blink, blank.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bl??/

Adjective

blanc (feminine singular blanche, masculine plural blancs, feminine plural blanches)

1. white color

   Ce lait est blanc. - This milk is white.

2. blank, unused
3. (figuratively, one's look) blank, without expression

Derived terms

Noun

blanc m (plural blancs)

1. white (color)
2. silence while in a dialog.
3. empty space, on a leaf of paper or in a form.

   Inscrivez votre nom dans le blanc en bas de la page. - Write your name in the blank at the bottom of the page.

4. (informal) white wine.

   Le poisson se mange avec du blanc. - fish is eaten with white wine.

5. white person, person with a white complexion.
6. white, egg white
7. white meat
8. correction fluid, whiteout, Tippex

Synonyms

• (correction fluid) blanco, correcteur liquide, tipex

Derived terms

• blanc de blancs
• blanc de noirs

Descendants

• Antillean Creole: blan
• Guianese Creole: blan
• Haitian Creole: blan
• Karipúna Creole French: blã
• Louisiana Creole French: blan, blon
• Seychellois Creole: blan
• Tayo: bla

See also

Further reading

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

Friulian

Etymology

From Late Latin, Vulgar Latin *blancus (compare Ladin blanch, Italian bianco, French blanc, Spanish blanco, Portuguese branco), from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“bright, shining, blinding, white”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhleg- (“to shine”).

Adjective

blanc

1. white

Interlingua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bla?k/

Adjective

blanc (comparative plus blanc, superlative le plus blanc)

1. white (having a light colour, reflecting all light)
2. white (having a light skin colour, mostly associated with European descent)

Derived terms

• blanchir

Related terms

• blanco

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French blanc.

Noun

blanc m (uncountable)

1. white

Adjective

blanc m (feminine singular blanche, masculine plural blancs, feminine plural blanches)

1. white

Descendants

• French: blanc (see there for further descendants)

Occitan

Alternative forms

• blan (Mistralian)

Etymology

From Old Occitan blanc, from Late Latin, Vulgar Latin *blancus (compare Catalan and French blanc, Spanish blanco, Portuguese branco, Italian bianco), from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“bright, shining, blinding, white”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhleg- (“to shine”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

blanc m (feminine singular blanca, masculine plural blancs, feminine plural blancas)

1. white

Old English

Alternative forms

• blonc, blaunc

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“bright", "shining", "blinding", "white”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhleg- (“to shine”). Akin to Old High German blanch, planch (“bright", "white”), hence German blank (“blank", "white”), Old Norse blankr (“white”), hence Danish blank (“shiny”), Swedish blank (“shiny”), Dutch blank (“white", "shining”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bl?nk/, [bl??k]

Adjective

blanc

1. white
2. greyish-white, pale, pallid

Declension

Related terms

• blonca, blanca
• blencan

Descendants

• Middle English: blanke, blonke
  • Scots: blonk

Old French

Etymology

From Late Latin, Vulgar Latin *blancus, from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“bright, shining, blinding, white”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhleg- (“to shine”). Akin to Old High German blanch "bright, white" (German blank (“blank, white”)), Old Norse blankr (“white”) (Danish blank (“bright, shiny”)), Dutch blank (“white, shining”). More at blink, blind.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [bla?k]

Adjective

blanc m (oblique and nominative feminine singular blanche)

1. white

Declension

Noun

blanc m (oblique plural blans, nominative singular blans, nominative plural blanc)

1. white (color)
   • circa 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:

     Ses haubers est coverz de sanc:
     De roge i a plus que de blanc.

     His chainmail is covered in blood

     There's more red than white (referring to his white chainmail)

Related terms

• blanchoier

Descendants

• Burgundian: blian
• Champaignat: bian
• Gallo: blânc
• Lorrain: bianc
• Middle English: blonc, blank, blaunc, blaunche
  • English: blank
• Middle French: blanc (see there for further descendants)
• Norman: bllànc, blianc
• Picard: blanc
• Walloon: blan, blanc

Old Occitan

Etymology

From Late Latin, Vulgar Latin *blancus, from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“bright, shining, blinding, white”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhleg- (“to shine”).

Adjective

blanc m (feminine singular blancha, masculine plural blancs, feminine plural blanchas)

1. white

Descendants

• Catalan: blanc
• Occitan: blanc

Walloon

Etymology

From Old French blanc, from Late Latin, Vulgar Latin *blancus, from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“bright, shining, blinding, white”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhleg- (“to shine”).

Adjective

blanc m (feminine singular blanke, masculine plural blancs, feminine plural blankes, feminine plural (before noun) blankès)

1. white

Noun

blanc m

1. white

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