Argentina

Latin, feminine singular of argentinus (“silvery”)

Argentina f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Argentinidae – herring smelts.
2. A taxonomic genus within the family Rosaceae – silverweeds and, possibly, some typical cinquefoils.

• The plant genus Argentina is in flux. It is likely an immediate sister to Potentilla, in which it had been included.

• (genus, fish): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Actinopterygii – superclass; Teleostei – class; Protacanthopterygii – superorder; Argentiniformes – order; Argentinoidei – suborder; Argentinidae – family
• (genus, plant): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, rosids, fabids – clades; Rosales – order; Rosaceae – family; Rosoideae - subfamily; Potentilleae - tribe; Potentillinae - subtribe

• (genus of fish): Argentina sphyraena (argentine) - type species; Argentina silus (greater argentine) - selected other species; for other species see Argentina (Argentinidae) on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• (genus of plant): Argentina anserina (silverweed) - type species; Argentina brassii, Argentina cardotiana, Argentina commutata, Argentina contigua, Argentina curta, Argentina emodi, Argentina fallens, Argentina festiva, Argentina glabriuscula, Argentina gombalana, Argentina gorokana, Argentina gracilescens, Argentina habbemana, Argentina hooglandii, Argentina indivisa, Argentina interrupta, Argentina irianensis, Argentina kinabaluensis, Argentina leuconota, Argentina lignosa, Argentina lineata, Argentina linilaciniata, Argentina luteopilosa, Argentina mangenii, Argentina micropetala, Argentina microphylla, Argentina millefoliolata, Argentina novoguineensis, Argentina oxyodonta, Argentina pacifica (Pacific silverweed), Argentina papuana, Argentina parvula, Argentina peduncularis, Argentina phanerophlebia, Argentina philippinensis, Argentina polyphylla, Argentina polyphylloides, Argentina pycnophylla, Argentina recognita, Argentina scorpionis, Argentina sericophylla, Argentina shweliensis, Argentina simulans, Argentina smithiana, Argentina songzhuensis, Argentina stenophylla, Argentina subarctica, Argentina sumatrana, Argentina taliensis, Argentina tapetodes, Argentina tristis, Argentina tugitakensis, Argentina turfosa, Argentina victorialis, Argentina vittata, Argentina wanimboi, Argentina wenchuensis, Argentina wilhelminensis, Argentina yonoweana - other species

• Argentina (fish) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Argentina (plant) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Argentina (Argentinidae) on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Argentina (Rosaceae) on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Argentina (fish) on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Category:Argentina (Rosaceae) on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Argentina at USDA Plants database

From Latin argentum (“silver”) + the feminine of the adjectival suffix -īnus; in reference to the Río de la Plata ("silver river").

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌɑː.d͡ʒənˈtiː.nə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌɑɹ.d͡ʒənˈti.nə/

• Audio (UK):

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• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -iːnə

Argentina

2. A country in South America. Official name: Argentine Republic. Capital: Buenos Aires.

   Synonyms: Argentine Confederation, Argentine Nation, Argentine Republic, United Provinces of the River Plate

   • 2023 October 23, Anna Cooban, “Javier Milei wants Argentina to swap the peso for the US dollar. Here’s what that could mean”, in CNN Business‎^[1]:

     To dollarize its economy, Argentina would need to exchange all pesos held by its people and businesses for US dollars, and assign a dollar value to all of its assets and contracts.

• (country in South America):
  countries in South America (appendix)edit

  • Argentina
  • Bolivia
  • Brazil
  • Chile
  • Colombia
  • Ecuador
  • Guyana
  • Paraguay
  • Peru
  • Suriname
  • Uruguay
  • Venezuela

• Argentina on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Argentina on Wikiquote.Wikiquote
• Argentina on Wikivoyage.Wikivoyage
• Category:Argentina on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

• argentian, tanagrine

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ər.ʒənˈti.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [aɾ.d͡ʒenˈti.na]

• Audio (Valencia):

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Argentina f

1. Argentina (a country in South America)

• argentí

• Argentina on the Catalan Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ca

Argentina

1. Argentina (a country in South America)

Borrowed from Spanish Argentina.

Argentina

1. (Amecameca, Cholula, Milpa Alta, Texcoco and Tlaxcala) Argentina (a country in South America)

Borrowed from Spanish Argentina, from Latin argentum (“silver”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈarɡɛntɪna]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɪna
• Hyphenation: Ar‧gen‧ti‧na

Argentina f (relational adjective argentinský, demonym Argentinec, female demonym Argentinka)

1. Argentina (a country in South America; official name: Argentinská republika)

• “Argentina”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
• “Argentina”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “Argentina”, in Akademický slovník současné češtiny, 2012–2025, slovnikcestiny.cz
• “Argentina”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Argentina

1. Argentina (a country in South America)

Argentina

1. Argentina (a country in South America)

Borrowed from Spanish Argentina, from Latin argentum (“silver”).

• IPA^(key): /ar.d͡ʒenˈti.na/
• Rhymes: -ina
• Hyphenation: Ar‧gen‧tì‧na

Argentina f

1. Argentina (a country in South America)

• argentino
• argento

• argenanti, arginante, granatine, inargenta, ingranate, rinnegata

Calque of Spanish Argentina, from argentum (“silver”) + -īna.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ar.ɡɛnˈtiː.na]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ar.d͡ʒen̪ˈt̪iː.na]

Argentīna f sg (genitive Argentīnae); first declension

1. (New Latin) Argentina (a country in South America)

First-declension noun, singular only.

• argentīnus

Borrowed from Spanish Argentina, from Latin argentum (“silver”).

• IPA^(key): [ɐrʲɡʲɛnʲtʲɪˈnɐ]
• Hyphenation: Ar‧gen‧ti‧na

Argentinà f (uncountable, relational adjective argentiniẽtiškas or argenti̇̀niškas, demonym argentiniẽtis, female demonym argentiniẽtė) stress pattern 2

1. Argentina (a country in South America; official name: Argenti̇̀nos Respùblika)

• “Argentina” in Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija (Universal Lithuanian Encyclopedia)

• IPA^(key): /ɑɾɡəntɪːnɑ/

Argentina

1. Argentina (a country in South America)

• argentiner
• argentinsk

Argentina

1. Argentina (a country in South America)

• argentinar
• argentinsk

Argentina f

1. Argentina (a country in South America)

• argentin
• Argentin

Borrowed from Spanish Argentina, from Latin argentum (“silver”).

• Rhymes: -inɐ, (Brazil) -ĩnɐ
• Homophone: argentina
• Hyphenation: Ar‧gen‧ti‧na

• Audio (Brazil):

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Argentina f

1. Argentina (a country in South America; official name: República Argentina)

• argentino

• → Hunsrik: Arschentina

From Latin argentum (“silver”) + the feminine of the adjectival suffix -īnus, in reference to the Río de la Plata.

• IPA^(key): /ɑr.dʒenˈti.na/

• Audio:

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Argentina f (genitive and dative Argentinei)

1. Argentina (a country in South America)

• argentinian
• argentiniană

• IPA^(key): /arɡentǐːna/
• Hyphenation: Ar‧gen‧ti‧na

Argentína f (Cyrillic spelling Аргенти́на)

1. Argentina (a country in South America)

• IPA^(key): /arɡɛntìːna/

Argentína f

1. Argentina (a country in South America)

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Feminine, a-stem
nominative	Argentína
genitive	Argentíne
	singular
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	Argentína
genitive (rodȋlnik)	Argentíne
dative (dajȃlnik)	Argentíni
accusative (tožȋlnik)	Argentíno
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	Argentíni
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	Argentíno

• Argentínec / Argentínka
• argentínski

• “Argentina”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025

From argentino (“silvery”), in reference to the Río de la Plata ("silver river"), since first European explorers, looking for gold and silver, thought it looked like silver because of the reflection of sunlight.

• IPA^(key): /aɾxenˈtina/ [aɾ.xẽn̪ˈt̪i.na]

• Audio (Peru); “Argentina; capital: Buenos Aires”:

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• Rhymes: -ina
• Syllabification: Ar‧gen‧ti‧na

Argentina f

1. Argentina (a country in South America)
   • 2024 October 17, CNN, “En imágenes: algunos episodios de la vida de Liam Payne”, in CNN en Español‎^[2]:

     El cantante Liam Payne murió a los 31 años tras caer desde el tercer piso de un hotel de Buenos Aires, Argentina, informó la policía local.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• The definite article is optional when one refers to Argentina in Spanish (i.e. la Argentina). It is mostly used in Argentina and Uruguay.

• → Tagalog: Arhentina

• tangerina

• Ajentina

• Audio (Kenya):

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Argentina

1. Argentina (a country in South America)

From Latin argentum (“silver”) + the feminine of the adjectival suffix -īnus; in reference to the Río de la Plata ("silver river").

• Audio:

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Argentina n (genitive Argentinas)

1. Argentina (a country in South America)

• argentinsk (“Argentine”, adjective)
• argentinare c (“Argentine male”)
• argentinska c (“Argentine female”)

• Argentina in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• Svensk MeSH

Other scripts
Latin	Argentina‍
Cyrillic	Аргентина‍
Arabic	آرژانتین

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1. Argentina (a country in South America)

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1. Argentina (a country in South America)

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1. Argentina (a country in South America)