argentado
Portuguese
Participle
argentado (feminine argentada, masculine plural argentados, feminine plural argentadas)
- past participle of argentar
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin argentātum, from argentum (“silver”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aɾxenˈtado/ [aɾ.xẽn̪ˈt̪a.ð̞o]
- Rhymes: -ado
- Syllabification: ar‧gen‧ta‧do
Adjective
argentado (feminine argentada, masculine plural argentados, feminine plural argentadas)
- silver, silvery
- 1979 [1847], Charlotte Brontë, chapter 25, in E. Vergara, transl., Jane Eyre, Círculo de Lectores, page 250:
- Las nubes [···] desaparecían, formando grandes y argentadas masas en el horizonte.
- The clouds [···] were disappearing, creating big and silver masses on the horizon.
Participle
argentado (feminine argentada, masculine plural argentados, feminine plural argentadas)
- past participle of argentar
Further reading
- “argentado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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