Argentine

From Old French argentin (“silvery”), from Latin argentum (“silver”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɑː.dʒən.taɪn/, /ˈɑː.dʒən.tiːn/

Argentine (not comparable)

1. Of, from, or pertaining to Argentina or its people.
   • 2011 October 1, Saj Chowdhury, “Wolverhampton 1 - 2 Newcastle”, in BBC Sport‎:

     Argentine midfielder Jonas Gutierrez added a superb second when he surged past four challenges to fire in low.

   Synonyms: (rare) Argentinan, Argentinean, Argentinian

Argentine (plural Argentines)

1. A citizen or descendant abroad of Argentina.

   Synonyms: (rare) Argentinan, Argentinean, Argentinian

2. (dance) Short for Argentine tango.

Argentine

1. (archaic, with "the") Argentina.
2. A neighbourhood of Kansas City, Kansas, named after a silver smeltery.
3. (obsolete) Strasbourg (city in France).
   • 1610 October​, John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of Matters Most Speciall and Memorable, Happening in the Church, with an Vniuersall Historie of the Same. […], volume I, 6th edition, London: […] [Humphrey Lownes] for the Company of Stationers, OCLC 81611923, book VI, page 650, column 1:

     The first inuenter thereof (as most agree) is thought to be a Germaine, dwellyng first in Argentine, afterward Citizen of Mentz, named John Faustus, a goldsmith.

   • 1624, Patrick Symson, The Historie of the Church Since the Dayes of Our Saviour Iesus Christ untill this present Age […], page 178:

     […] and the Ambassadour for the Citie of Argentine was not suffered to sit in the Councell, because that Cittie had disanulled the Masse.

   • 1629 [1619], Paolo Sarpi, Nathaniel Brent, transl., The Historie of the Councel of Trent […]‎, London: Bonham Norton and John Bill, OCLC 230679140, book 1, paragraph 61, page 27:

     […] they deemed no remedy more commodious, effectuall, and opportune, than if his Holines, by the Emperours consent, would call a godly, free, and Christian Councell, so soone as it were possible, in some conuenient place in Germanie; that is, in Argentine, in Mentz, Collen, or Metz, […]

• Argentina

• Tangerine, antigreen, intragene, tangerine

• IPA^(key): /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tin/
• Homophone: Argentines

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Argentine f

1. Argentina (a country in South America)

Argentine f (plural Argentines)

1. female equivalent of Argentin

• “Argentine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• gainèrent, régnaient