Etymology

Argentinian

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Today it means: A person from Argentina or of Argentine descent. Full definition →

English Argentin(a) ← Spanish Argentina ← Latin argentīnu
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₂erǵ-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₂ŕ̥ǵn̥tom
  3. Proto-Italic*argentom
  4. Latinargentum
  5. Latinargentīnu
  6. Spanishargentino
  7. SpanishArgentina
  8. EnglishArgentin(a)
  9. English todayArgentinian

From Argentin(a) + -ian.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.