argentado

Portuguese

Participle

argentado (feminine argentada, masculine plural argentados, feminine plural argentadas)

1. 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)

1. silver, silvery

   Synonyms: plateado, argénteo, argentino

   • 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)

1. past participle of argentar

Further reading

• “argentado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10