argilla

From Latin argilla.

• IPA^(key): /arˈd͡ʒil.la/
• Rhymes: -illa
• Hyphenation: ar‧gìl‧la

argilla f (plural argille)

1. clay

   Synonym: creta

• argillaceo
• argilloso

• argilla in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἄργιλλος (árgillos, “white clay, potter's earth”), from ἀργός (argós, “white”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /arˈɡiːl.la/, [ärˈɡiːlːʲä] or IPA^(key): /arˈɡil.la/, [ärˈɡɪlːʲä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /arˈd͡ʒil.la/, [ärˈd͡ʒilːä]
• Unclear vowel length; a long vowel is implied by a number of the Romance descendants (contrast with the outcomes of capillus). The Greek etymon has a variable form, with one attested alternative being ἄργῑλος (árgīlos).

argī̆lla f (genitive argī̆llae); first declension

1. white clay, potter's clay, argil

First-declension noun.

• argī̆llōsus

• “argilla”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “argilla”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• argilla 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)
• argilla in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “argilla”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers