Name of Argentina "equivalent and valid" denominations. Then on October 8, 1860, President Santiago Derqui decreed the official name to be República Argentina. In common speech, the country is referred to as "la Argentina" (the Argentine) in Spanish, bypassing the noun in any of the above expressions ("the Argentine [land]", "the Argentine [Republic]", etc.). Name of Argentina The name of Argentina (a Spanish adjective meaning "silvery"), traditionally called the Argentine in English, is ultimately derived from the Latin "argentum" "silver" and the feminine of the adjectival suffix -īnus, the Latin "argentum" has its origin from the ancient Greek-Hellenic word "argyro(s)", άργυρο(ς) meaning silver.
Latin word order a sentence, therefore. Other words, such as "fere" "approximately" and "etiam", are frequently enclitic: In the phrase "ne ... quidem" "not even", the word "quidem" generally follows the first word of the emphasised phrase, rather than the whole phrase: Personal pronouns such as "me" "me" and "mihi" "to me" can have weak and strong forms in Latin. When weak they tend to be found early in the sentence, either after the first word (which can be a conjunction such as "cum" "when" or "et" "and") or after an enclitic such as "enim", if present: Contrast sentences like the following, where