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English

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Etymology

From Middle English silver, selver, sulver, from Old English seolfor, seolofor (“silver”), from Proto-Germanic *silubrą (“silver”), of uncertain origin.

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Cognate with Saterland Frisian Säälwer (“silver”), West Frisian sulver (“silver”), Dutch zilver (“silver”), German Low German Silver, Sülver (“silver”), German Silber (“silver”), Swedish silver (“silver”), Icelandic silfur (“silver”). A further derivation from Proto-Indo-European *silubʰr-, *silebʰr- (“silver”) is not supported by cognates outside of Proto-Germanic. The Germanic word has parallels in Baltic and Slavic (Old Church Slavonic сьрєбро (sĭrebro), Lithuanian sidabras), Celtic (Celtiberian silaPur-), and outside Indo-European, in Basque (zilar, zilhar and further dialectal variants) and perhaps Berber (Tashelhit aẓrf), but the ultimate origin of the word is unknown. A Wanderwort of ultimately Semitic origin has been suggested (Akkadian 𒀫𒁍𒌝 (ṣurpum, “silver”), from 𒍝𒊏𒁍𒌝 (ṣarāpum, “to smelt or refine”)).[1] However at least one scholar has considered this phonologically and geographically improbable.

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Adjective sense of twenty-fifth wedding anniversary generalized from silver wedding, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] German Silberhochzeit, silberne Hochzeit.

Pronunciation

Noun

silver (countable and uncountable, plural silvers)

Chemical element
palladium
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  1. (uncountable) A lustrous, white, metallic element, atomic number 47, atomic weight 107.87, symbol Ag.
  2. (collectively) Coins made from silver or any similar white metal.
  3. (collectively) Cutlery and other eating utensils, whether silver or made from some other white metal.
  4. (collectively) Any items made from silver or any other white metal.
  5. (countable) A shiny gray color.
    silver:  
  6. Anything resembling silver; something shiny and white.
    • 1909, H. G. Wells, The Beautiful Suit
      And next morning they found him dead, with his neck broken, in the bottom of the stone pit, with his beautiful clothes a little bloody, and foul and stained with the duckweed from the pond. But his face was a face of such happiness that, had you seen it, you would have understood indeed how that he had died happy, never knowing that cool and streaming silver for the duckweed in the pond.

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Adjective

silver (comparative more silver, superlative most silver)

Silver Roman artwork
  1. Made from silver.
    • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 10, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
      He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.
    • 1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax:
      But Richmond […] appeared to lose himself in his own reflections. Some pickled crab, which he had not touched, had been removed with a damson pie; and his sister saw, peeping around the massive silver epergne that almost obscured him from her view, that he had eaten no more than a spoonful of that either.
  2. Made from another white metal.
  3. Having a color like silver: a shiny gray.
  4. Denoting the twenty-fifth anniversary, especially of a wedding.
    • 1994, “Mate matching” in Accent on Living, v 38, n 4 (Spring), p 52:
      Mostly, these have been relationships of 10 or less years. However, one respondent has celebrated her silver wedding anniversary.
  5. (of commercial services) Premium, but inferior to gold.
  6. Having the clear, musical tone of silver; soft and clear in sound.
    a silver-voiced young girl

Synonyms

  • (made from silver): silvern (archaic)
  • (having a color like silver): silvery

Translations

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Verb

silver (third-person singular simple present silvers, present participle silvering, simple past and past participle silvered)

  1. To acquire a silvery colour.
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      The eastern sky began to silver and shine.
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  2. To cover with silver, or with a silvery metal.
    to silver a pin;  to silver a glass mirror plate with an amalgam of tin and mercury
  3. To polish like silver; to impart a brightness to, like that of silver.
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      And smiling calmness silvered o'er the deep.
  4. To make hoary, or white, like silver.
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      His head was silvered o'er with age.

References

  1. ^ Black, Jeremy, George, Andrew, Postgate, Nicholas (1999) Concise Dictionary of Akkadian, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag

Further reading

  • David Barthelmy (1997–2025) “Silver”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
  • “silver”, in Mindat.org‎[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2025.

Anagrams

Hunsrik

Pronunciation

Adjective

silver

  1. silvern

Further reading

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch silver, from Proto-Germanic *silubrą.

Pronunciation

Noun

silver n

  1. silver

Inflection

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Descendants

  • Dutch: zilver
  • Limburgish: zèlver

Further reading

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old English seolfor, seolofor (“silver”), from Proto-Germanic *silubrą (“silver”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsilvər/, /ˈsɛlvər/

Noun

silver (plural silvers)

  1. silver (metal)

Descendants

Old Swedish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Norse silfr, from Proto-Germanic *silubrą.

Noun

silver n

  1. silver

Declension

Declension of silfr (strong a-stem)
neuter singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative silfr silfrit silfr silfrin
accusative silfr silfrit silfr silfrin
dative silfri, silfre silfrinu, silfreno silfrum, silfrom silfrumin, silfromen
genitive silfrs silfrsins silfra silfranna

Descendants

Swedish

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Etymology

From Old Swedish silver, from Old Norse silfr, from Proto-Germanic *silubrą.

Pronunciation

Noun

silver n (uncountable)

  1. silver
  2. silver, coins of silver
  3. silver, cutlery of silver
  4. a silver medal, for 2nd place in a competition

Declension

Declension of silver
nominative genitive
singular indefinite silver silvers
definite silvret silvrets
plural indefinite silver silvers
definite silvren silvrens

Derived terms

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References

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