argentifex

Latin

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From argentum (“silver”) +‎ -fex (“suffix representing a maker or producer”).

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /arˈɡen.ti.feks/, [ärˈɡɛn̪t̪ɪfɛks̠]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /arˈd͡ʒen.ti.feks/, [ärˈd͡ʒɛn̪t̪ifeks]

argentifex m (genitive argentificis); third declension

(hapax legomenon) a worker in silver, silversmith
- 116 BCE – 27 BCE, Marcus Terentius Varro, De Lingua Latina 8.62.4:
  […] neque ut aurificem, sic argentificem.
  […] that there is no [term] argentifex ‘silversmith’ like aurifex ‘goldsmith’.

argentĭfex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.