argentōsus

Meaning

1. adjectivefull of silver, silvery, silver-bearing
   Ita feruminatur aurum, quod argentosum vocant.Thus the gold, which they call silvery, is soldered.77 CE – 79 CE, Plinius Maior, Naturalis Historia 33.29
   Quum autem sic olim effossa sit et egesta materia argenti, considerate nec aliquam partem eiecti acervi sponte nascentium glebarum et argentosarum, nec ipsum argentosum locum quicquam diminutum et contractum esse, sed magis ac magis protendi ac diletari videtur.Now in spite of the fact that the silver ore has been dug and carried out for so long a time, I would ask you to note that the mounds of rubbish so shoveled out are but a fractional portion of the series of hillocks containing veins full of silver, and as yet unquarried, nor is the silver-bearing region gradually becoming circumscribed, but rather it is evidently extending in wider area from year to year.1561, Xenophon, translated by Jean Ribit, De Vectigalibus:

Declension

Origins

1. Proto-Indo-European*h₂erǵ-
2. Proto-Indo-European*h₂ŕ̥ǵn̥tom
3. Proto-Italic*argentom
4. Latinargentōsus

Latin -ōsus Latin argentōsus From argentum (“silver”) + -ōsus (“full of”).

In English words that came into English from argentōsus

• argentousargentōsus