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"silver (colour)" in seven languages

Meaningsilver (colour)

Spanish

plateado

/plateˈado/

other source · plata 'silver', originally 'metal plate', from Vulgar Latin *PLATTA 'flat'

French

argenté

/aʁʒɑ̃te/

inherited

Italian

argentato

/ardʒenˈtato/

inherited

Argenteo is the literary 'silvery'.

Portuguese

prateado

/pɾatʃiˈadu/

other source · prata 'silver', originally 'metal plate', from Vulgar Latin *PLATTA 'flat'

Romanian

argintiu

/arɡinˈtiw/

inherited

Built on argint 'silver' (ARGENTUM) with the colour suffix -iu.

Catalan

platejat

/plətəˈʒat/

other source · plata 'silver', from Vulgar Latin *PLATTA 'flat'

Argentat also exists.

English

silver

/ˈsɪlvɚ/

native English · Old English seolfor

English → Italiansilver (colour)argentatoNot relatedDifferent sources — learn this one fresh. But English has relatives: argent, Argentina.What English and Italian share

The Latin ancestor

ARGENTUM‘silver’

All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.

The story

Spanish calls silver plata (a 'plate' of metal), yet the country of the Río de la Plata took its name from the Latin word: Argentina.

English relatives: argent, Argentina

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In a sentence

  • esQuiero el coche plateado.
  • frJe voudrais la voiture argentée.
  • itVorrei la macchina argentata.
  • ptEu queria o carro prateado.
  • roAș vrea mașina argintie.
  • caVoldria el cotxe platejat.
  • enI'd like the silver car.

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