Type Country
Usage Spanish, English, Portuguese, Italian, Russian, Romanian, Czech, Slovene, Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, Macedonian, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Estonian, Lithuanian, Hebrew, Georgian, Azerbaijani, Indonesian, Malay
Scripts Аргентина(Russian, Serbian, Macedonian) ארְגּןְטינה(Hebrew) არგენტინა(Georgian)
Pronounced Pron. /aɾ.xen.ˈti.na/(Spanish) /ˌɑɹ.d͡ʒən.ˈti.nə/(American English) /ˌɑː.d͡ʒən.ˈtiː.nə/(British English) /ɐɾ.ʒẽ.ˈti.nɐ/(European Portuguese) /aʁ.ʒẽ.ˈt͡ʃĩ.nɐ/(Brazilian Portuguese) /ar.d͡ʒen.ˈti.na/(Italian) /ɐr.ɡʲɪnʲ.ˈtʲi.nə/(Russian) /ɑr.d͡ʒen.ˈti.na/(Romanian) /ˈar.ɡɛn.tɪ.na/(Czech) /ar.ɡɛn.ˈti.na/(Macedonian) /ar.ɡen.tʼi.na/(Georgian) [key·simplify]
Note In Azerbaijani this name is written with a dotted İ. It appears as ARGENTİNA in uppercase and argentina in lowercase.
Meaning & History
From Latin argentinus meaning "silvery", a derivative of argentum meaning "silver". This is the name of a country in South America, arising from a Latinized form of Spanish Río de la Plata meaning "river of silver".
Related Names
Rootargentum
VariantArgentiina(Estonian)
Other Languages & CulturesArgentinië(Dutch) Argentiina(Finnish) Argentine(French) Argentinien(German) Argentini(Greek) Argentína(Hungarian) Argentína(Icelandic) Argentīna(Latvian) Argentyna(Polish) Argentína(Slovak) Arjantin(Turkish) Arhentyna(Ukrainian)
User SubmissionArġentina
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