English

Alternative forms

• arg., a. (heraldry)

Noun

argent ‎(uncountable)

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

   argent colour:

   • 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.
   • Tennyson

     The polished 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.
   • 1889, Charles Norton Elvin, A Dictionary of Heraldry

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

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
• 1733, Or ask of yonder argent fields above, / Why Jove's Satellites are less than Jove? — Alexander Pope, Essay on Man
• 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

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin argentum.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ar‧gent

Noun

argent m ‎(uncountable)

1. silver

French

Etymology

From Old French argent, from Latin argentum, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erǵn̥t-, n-stem form of *h₂erǵ- ‎(“white”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aʁ.ʒɑ̃/
• (Paris) IPA^(key): /æʁʒõ/^[1]
• Hyphenation: ar‧gent

Noun

argent m ‎(plural argents)

1. silver
2. money
3. (heraldry) argent (white in heraldry)

Related terms

Anagrams

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

References

1. ↑ http://accentsdefrance.free.fr/

Middle French

Noun

argent m (plural argens or argentz)

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

Descendants

• French: argent

Norman

Alternative forms

• ergent (continental Normandy)
• ardjã (Sark)

Etymology

From Old French argent, from Latin argentum, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erǵn̥t-, n-stem form of *h₂erǵ- ‎(“white”).

Noun

argent m ‎(uncountable)

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

Derived terms

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

Old French

Alternative forms

• arjant

Etymology

From Latin argentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ardʒẽnt/

Noun

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

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

Descendants

• English: argent (borrowed)
• French: argent
• Norman: argent

Old Provençal

Alternative forms

• argen

Etymology

Latin argentum.

Noun

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

1. silver

References

• (fr)(de) argentum in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (Walther von Wartburg, 2002)