Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Silver. In chem., abbreviated Ag.
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Examples
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Instead, in commercial hot spots of the Roman Forum and elsewhere, coins were handled in an argenteria, a stall whose name came from the word argentum, meaning at once “silver” and “money.”xiii Not sure whether my pouch of silver-looking coins is worth your three hundred jugs of olive oil?
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Instead, in commercial hot spots of the Roman Forum and elsewhere, coins were handled in an argenteria, a stall whose name came from the word argentum, meaning at once “silver” and “money.”xiii Not sure whether my pouch of silver-looking coins is worth your three hundred jugs of olive oil?
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Yes, your entire universe bathed in the light that would be the marriage of rose-gold and argentum.
madrigle Diary Entry madrigle 2007
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Mulieres Babyloni caecum hospite permiscentur ob argentum quod post Veneri sacrum.
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Roman soldiers were paid salarium argentum, or salt money.
Archive 2005-11-01 2005
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Roman soldiers were paid salarium argentum, or salt money.
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Rogaui etiam eum vt dignaretur accipere munusculum de manu nostra, excusans me, quia monachus eram, nec erat ordinis nostri possidere aurum, vel argentum, vel vestes preciosas.
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Saracenos: et cum non possunt amplius dare aurum vel argentum, ducunt eos et paruulos eorum tanquam greges ad solitudinem vt custodiant animalia eorum.
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Et mirabantur supra modum, quia nolebamus recipere aurum, vel argentum, vel vestes præciosas.
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Excusaui etiam me quia monachus eram, non habens, nec recipiens, nec tractans aurum vel argentum vel aliquid preciosum, solis libris et capella in qua seruiebamus deo exceptis: vnde nullum xenium afferebamus ei nec domino suo.
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