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Latin
Etymology
Often taken to be a denominative verb 'to make bright, enlighten' to Proto-Italic *argu- (“bright”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂érǵus (“white”), from *h₂erǵ-. Thus cognate with Ancient Greek ἄργυρος (árguros) and Hittite 𒄯𒆠𒅖 (ḫarkiš, “bright, white”). If so, compare English declare (literally “to make clear”) for the sense development.
Duchesne-Guillemin, Laroche and Melchert reject the above etymology and instead compare arguo with the semantically better-fitting Hittite (arkuwā(i)-, “state one's case, make a plea”).
Pronunciation
Verb
arguō (present infinitive arguere, perfect active arguī, supine argūtum); third conjugation
- (to make clear to the mind): to clarify, to make plain; to assert, declare, prove, show
- Synonyms: affirmō, firmō, contendō, aiō, fīgō
- to reprove, accuse, charge with
- Synonyms: accūsō, condemnō, crīminor, compellō, obloquor, obiectō, corripiō, arripiō, pulsō, incūsō, arcessō
- Vulgate; Prōverbia, 9:8
- Nōlī arguere dērīsōrem nē ōderit tē argue sapientem et dīliget tē.
- Translation from American Standard Version:
- Reprove not a scoffer, lest he hate thee: Reprove a wise man, and he will love thee.
- to blame, censure
- Synonyms: obiūrgō, castīgō, perstringō, īnsector, corripiō, exprobrō, accūsō, incūsō, damnō, obloquor, acclāmō, inclāmō, increpō, animadvertō, reprehendō, compellō
- to denounce as false
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References
- “arguo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “arguo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- arguo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
Portuguese
Verb
arguo
- first-person singular present indicative of arguir