Definition of "argentum" []

• Silver. In chem., abbreviated Ag. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "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?"
• "Mulieres Babyloni caecum hospite permiscentur ob argentum quod post Veneri sacrum."
• "Yes, your entire universe bathed in the light that would be the marriage of rose-gold and argentum."