The corpus record — Latin

dĕ-argento

dĕ-argento · v. a

To deprive of money

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What it meant

dĕ-argento — Lewis & Short

dĕ-argento, āvi, ātum, l, v. a.argentum. *

I To deprive of money (anteclass.): depeculassere aliqua sperans me atque deargentassere, Lucil. ap. Non. 97, 8. —

II To silver over, to plate with silver (late Lat.): idola deargentata et deaurata, Hier. in les. 9, 30, 24: arma, Oros. 3, 22: columba, Aug. Ep. 23, 5: pennae, Vulg. Psa. 67, 14.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.