argent

• arg., a. (heraldry)

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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɑːdʒənt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɑɹd͡ʒənt/
• Hyphenation: ar‧gent

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)dʒənt

argent (countable and uncountable, plural argents)

1. (archaic) The metal silver.
2. (heraldry) The white or silver tincture on a coat of arms.

   argent:  

   • 1909, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, A Complete Guide to Heraldry:

     The metals are gold and silver, these being termed "or" and "argent".

3. (archaic or poetic) Whiteness; anything that is white.
   • 1842, Alfred Tennyson, “A Dream of Fair Women”, in Poems. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:

     The polish'd argent of her breast.

4. A moth of the genus Argyresthia.

argent (not comparable)

1. Of silver or silver-coloured.
   • 1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], epistle I, London: […] J[ohn] Wilford, […], →OCLC, page 5, lines 49–50:

     Or ask of yonder argent fields above, / Why Jove's Satellites are leſs than Jove?

2. (heraldry): of white or silver tincture on a coat of arms.
   • 1889, Charles Norton Elvin, A Dictionary of Heraldry:

     ... when the shield is argent, it is shown in an engraving by being left plain.

   • 1956 July, Col. H. C. B. Rogers, “Railway Heraldry”, in Railway Magazine, page 480:

     The official blazon of the arms of Perth is "Gules, a Holy Lambe passant regardant staff and cross argent, with the banner of St. Andrew proper, all within a double tressure counter-flowered of the second": […] .

• blanc, silver

• Ag (chemical symbol for silver)

• Appendix:Colors

• 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

  Those argent Fields more likely habitants, / Translated Saints, or middle Spirits hold / Betwixt th' Angelical and Human kinde

• 1818, John Keats, “(please specify the page)”, in Endymion: A Poetic Romance, London: […] T[homas] Miller, […] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC:

  she did soar / So passionately bright, my dazzled soul / Commingling with her argent spheres did roll / Through clear and cloudy

• 1818, John Keats, “(please specify the page)”, in Endymion: A Poetic Romance, London: […] T[homas] Miller, […] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC:

  Pardon me, airy planet, that I prize / One thought beyond thine argent luxuries!

• 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, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC:

  "A castle argent is certainly my crest," said he blandly.

• 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:

  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.

• 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:

  Keep our flag flying! An eagle gules volant in a field argent displayed.

• 1967, Argent I craft you as the star / Of flower-shut evening — John Berryman, Berryman's Sonnets

• Tanger, Garnet, garnet, Granet, Gretna, gerant, Gernat

Chemical element
Ag
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Inherited from Latin argentum n.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ərˈʒen]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ərˈʒent]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [aɾˈd͡ʒent]

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• Hyphenation: ar‧gent

argent m (uncountable)

1. silver

   Synonym: plata

2. (heraldry) argent
3. (figurative) money, cash

   Synonyms: calé, diner

• “argent”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “argent”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “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.

Inherited from Latin argentum n.

argent m (ORB, broad)

1. silver
2. money
3. fortune, riches

• argent in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• argent in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

Inherited from Middle French argent m, from Old French argent m, from Latin argentum n (according to the TLFi etymological dictionary, a borrowing), itself from Proto-Italic *argentom n, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂r̥ǵn̥tóm n, from *h₂erǵ- (“white”).

• IPA^(key): /aʁ.ʒɑ̃/

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• Hyphenation: ar‧gent

argent m (plural argents)

1. silver
2. money, cash

   Synonyms: oseille, fric, thune, pognon, liquide, blé, peso, rond, pèze, sous, flouze, bifton, biff, mitraille

3. (heraldry) argent (white in heraldry)

• Haitian Creole: ajan
• Louisiana Creole: larjên

• “argent”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• “argent” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
• “argent” in Dico en ligne Le Robert.

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

From Old French argent m.

argent m (plural argens or argentz)

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

• French: argent m
  • Haitian Creole: ajan
  • Louisiana Creole: larjên

• ergent (continental Normandy)
• ardjã (Sark)

From Old French argent m, from Latin argentum n (possibly a borrowing), itself from Proto-Italic *argentom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂r̥ǵn̥tóm, from *h₂erǵ- (“white”).

argent m (uncountable)

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

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

Inherited from Old Occitan argent m, from Latin argentum n.

Compare cognates Catalan argent m, French argent m, and Piedmontese argent m.

• (Languedoc) IPA^(key): [aɾˈd͡ʒen]
• (Limousin) IPA^(key): [aʁˈd͡zɛ̃ⁿ]
• (Niçard) IPA^(key): [aʀ.ˈd͡ʒɛ̃(ŋ)]

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argent m (plural argents)

1. silver

• arjant

From Latin argentum n.

• IPA^(key): (early) /aɾˈd͡ʒent/
• IPA^(key): (late) /aɾˈʒant/

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

1. silver (metal)
2. silver (colour)

• Middle French: argent m
  • French: argent m
    • Haitian Creole: ajan
    • Louisiana Creole: larjên
• Norman: argent, ergent, ardjã m
• Walloon: ardjint
• → Middle English: argent
  • English: argent

• argen

Inherited from Latin argentum.

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

1. silver

• Occitan: argent
• → Old Spanish: argent

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “argentum”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 25: Refonte Apaideutos–Azymus, page 192

From Old Occitan argent, from Latin argentum n, from Proto-Italic *argentom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂r̥ǵn̥tóm.

• IPA^(key): /aɾˈʒent/

argent m (usually uncountable)

1. silver

   Synonym: plata f

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

     cuemos torno putána la cibdad fidel plena de iudicios : iuſticia manie enella e agora homicidio. To argent es tónado eſcoria to uino es buelto en agua.

     How the faithful city full of righteousness has become a harlot! Justice dwelt within her, but now murder. Your silver has become dross and your wine has turned into water.

Ultimately inherited from Latin argentum n.

Compare cognates Occitan argent m, Catalan argent m, Friulian arint m, Lombard arsgent, Italian argento m, and French argent m.

argent

1. silver