Etymology

minargent

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Today it means: An alloy of (starting with the main component, and ending with the smallest) copper, nickel, tungsten, and aluminium, formerly used by jewellers as a substitute for silver. Full definition →

Latin argentum
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromargentum“silver”
  2. English todayminargent

Probably from aluminium and Latin argentum (“silver”).

Words from the same roots

Latinargentum all →

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