argentarius

From argentum (“silver”) +‎ -ārius (suffix forming relational adjectives and agent nouns).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ar.ɡenˈtaː.ri.us/, [ärɡɛn̪ˈt̪äːriʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ar.d͡ʒenˈta.ri.us/, [ärd͡ʒen̪ˈt̪äːrius]

argentārius m (genitive argentāriī or argentārī); second declension

1. banker, money changer

Second-declension noun.

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• (money changer): nummulārius

• argentāria
• argentārium

• Catalan: argenter
• French: argentier (“silversmith”)
• Italian: argentaio, argentario
• Romanian: argintar (“silversmith”)
• Spanish: argentero

argentārius (feminine argentāria, neuter argentārium); first/second-declension adjective

1. silvern
2. monetary
3. financial
4. (relational) banking

First/second-declension adjective.

• “argentarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “argentarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• argentarius in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• argentarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be a banker: argentariam facere (Verr. 5. 59. 155)
    
  • to close one's bank, give up banking: argentariam dissolvere (Caecin. 4. 11)