Other forms: argentinas
Argentina is the South American country of tango, steak, and Buenos Aires. Travel to Argentina, northern Argentina, the government of Argentina.
The name means silvery, from a river the Spanish believed led to silver, and the silver was never there. It reaches from the tropics almost to Antarctica and holds both the highest and the lowest points in the southern hemisphere.
1nounargentinaA country in South America.
“Buenos Aires is the capital of Argentina and is famous for the tango.”
argentina is a country.
Proto-Indo-European
*h₂erǵ-
Latin
argentum
English
Argentina
English, today
argentina
Argentina Borrowed from Latin argentum. From Latin argentum (“silver”) + the feminine of the adjectival suffix -īnus; in reference to the Río de la Plata ("silver river"). Compare typologically copper (<< Κύπρος (“Cyprus”), a semantic shift in the opposite direction).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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