argenteus Latin · revision 31574

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=280/260–before 200 BC, Livius Andronicus|origins=la argentum}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [arˈɡɛn.te.ʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [arˈd͡ʒɛn.te.us]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''argenteus''' (feminine argentea, neuter argenteum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|argentum|-eus|t1=silver]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan derives ⟨argentum⟩ from [[itc-pro|*argento-]] and [[ine-pro|*h₂rǵ-nt-o-|t=silver]], cognate with [[osc|aragetud|t=money]], [[sga|argat|t=silver]], [[sa|रजत|tr=rajatá-|t=silver]] and [[ae|ərəzata-|t=silver]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest example is from Livius Andronicus, a silver basin,^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) and Köbler dates it from Plautus,^(Köbler 2010) who has silver drachmas.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is made of silver or decorated with silver, as Cicero's silver eagle;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) ''spūma argentea'', “silver foam”, is litharge, a by-product of smelting, in Pliny the Elder, and Ovid's silver race was the second age of mankind, worse than the golden.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It also means silvery in colour, as Virgil's silver goose.^(OLD 2012) Plautus jokes with it for “of money”: a man who is offered a beating says he can easily stand “silver blows”.^(OLD 2012) As a noun, ''argenteus'' (understood ''nummus'') is a silver coin.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Church Latin also uses the noun for a piece of silver, money.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 280/260–before 200 BC – Livius Andronicus of a silver basin.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of silver drachmas and “silver blows”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of a silvery goose.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–AD 18 – Ovid of the silver age.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca has the noun.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Made of [[m|en|silver]], decorated with silver;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) ''spūma argentea'', [[m|en|litharge]]; of the silver age.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # [[m|en|silvery]] in colour.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(humorous)'' Of money.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # A silver coin;^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995) ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' a piece of silver.^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[argenteolus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[argentum]]

+ * [[argentārius]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ ''Argenteus'' was also the name of a river in Gallia Narbonensis, now the Argens.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}