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This question seems gets the direction of influence exactly backwards. The Latin word for "silver", argentum, did not come into Latin from some other country, but there is a country whose name comes from the Latin word argentum: Argentina.
Argentum is, by the way, a native Latin word. Thus the question of where it came from is a question about the origins of the Latin language itself. Latin is first attested in Italy, in the area known as Latium. However, Latin is just one of many languages descended from what we now call Proto-Indo-European (PIE), a language that gave rise to most of the modern languages of Europe and many languages in Southwestern Asia as well. Scholars are divided over the original homeland of PIE speakers; some candidates are
- the area between the Black and Caspian Seas (modern southern Russia and Ukraine)
- Asia Minor (modern Turkey)
- the highlands of Armenia
The PIE root of argentum is arg-, "to be white; to shine".
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What Spanish country's name means silver?
== == Argentina from the Latin argentum: silver
The name of this country comes from the latin word for silver?
Argentina
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It come from the Latin word , Silver.
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Argentina, the Latin word meaning is 'of Silver'
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The latin word for silver?
argentumThe word "silver" does not come from Latin, where the word is argentum. There is speculation that the word ultimately derives from the Akkadian word for refined silver, ̣̣̣̣̣̣̣̣sarpu. Related words can be found throughout the Germanic and Balto-Slavic group of languages, which developed side-by-side in Northern Europe: German Silber, Dutch zilver, Russian serebo, Lithuanian sidabras.The Latin word for silver is argentum.Argentina comes from the Latin word for silver, argentum.
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