argentarius Latin · revision 32939

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *h₂rǵ-nt-o-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ar.ɡɛnˈtaː.ri.ʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ar.d͡ʒenˈtaː.ri.us]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''argentārius''' ''m'' (genitive argentāriī or argentārī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|argentum|-ārius|t1=silver, money]]; the noun “banker” is the adjective used as a noun.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) De Vaan traces [[m|la|argentum]] back to [[itc-pro|*argento-|t=silver]] and [[ine-pro|*h₂rǵ-nt-o-|t=silver]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The TLL and Köbler date it from Plautus,^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010) who says that courtesans are all money-baits.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ As an adjective it is of silver or concerned with silver, as Pliny the Elder's silver mines and ''plumbum argentārium'', an alloy of lead and tin.^(OLD 2012) More often it means concerned with money, financial: Plautus has money help, Terence money worry, and Cato a farm's money accounts; it is also concerned with banking, as Vitruvius' and Livy's bankers' shops.^(OLD 2012) As a noun it is a banker, money changer or financial agent.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) In Medieval Latin it is a silversmith, and a receiver or treasurer.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of money matters.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence of money worries.^(OLD 2012)

+ * c. 84–c. 25 BC – Vitruvius of bankers' shops.^(OLD 2012)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder of silver mines.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Of [[m|en|silver]], concerned with silver;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) ''plumbum argentārium'', an alloy of lead and tin.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Concerned with money, [[m|en|financial]], [[m|en|pecuniary]]; concerned with banking.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|banker]], money changer, financial agent.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A [[m|en|silversmith]]; a receiver, treasurer.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[argentāria]]

+ * [[argentarium]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[argentum]]

+ * [[argenteus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}