Silver - Wiktionary

See also: silver

English

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Etymology

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As a surname, anglicised from the German Jewish ornamental surname Silber.

Pronunciation

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  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈsɪlvɚ/

Proper noun

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Silver

  1. An English surname originating as an occupation for a silversmith or a rich man, or for someone having silvery gray hair or living by a silvery brook.
  2. A surname from German.
  3. A unisex given name from English from the metal, or transferred from the surname.
    • 1993, Ed McBain, Mischief, William Morrow and Co., →ISBN, page 67:" - - - I'll level with you, Mr. Cummings.""Silver", he corrected."Sounds like the Lone Ranger's horse," she said.
    • 1993, Annie Proulx, Shipping News, Fourth Estate, →ISBN, page 121:"Silver here, my darling wife, insists on the services of a particular yacht upholsterer. - - - " From the way he said the woman's metal name Quayle thought it was changed from a stodgier "Alice" or "Bernice".

Derived terms

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  • Russell-Silver dwarfism
  • Silver-Russell dwarfism

Anagrams

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  • Elvirs, levirs, livers, livres, rivels, sliver, svirel

Estonian

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Etymology

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Contraction of Latin Silvester, cognate with English Sylvester.

Proper noun

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Silver

  1. a male given name

Hunsrik

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈsilvɐ/

Noun

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Silver n

  1. silver

See also

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Symbol Pt Au Ag Fe Al Sn Cu
metal Platin Gold Silver Eise Aluminium Zinn Kupper

Further reading

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  • Boll, Piter Kehoma (2021), “Silver”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português, 3rd edition (overall work in Portuguese), Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch

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