silversmith

See also: silver-smith and Silversmith

English

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English silver smyth, from Old English seolforsmiþ (“silversmith”), from Proto-Germanic *silubrasmiþaz (“silversmith”), equivalent to silver +‎ smith. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Säälwersmid (“silversmith”), West Frisian sulversmid (“silversmith”), Dutch zilversmid (“silversmith”), German Low German Sülversmitt (“silversmith”), German Silberschmied (“silversmith”), Danish sølvsmed (“silversmith”), Norwegian Bokmål sølvsmed (“silversmith”), Norwegian Nynorsk sølvsmed (“silversmith”), sylvsmed (“silversmith”), Swedish silversmed (“silversmith”), Icelandic silfursmiður (“silversmith”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English argentarie (“silversmith”) from Latin (faber) argentārius (“dealer in silver, silversmith”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪlvəsmɪθ/

• Audio (Midwestern US):

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Noun

silversmith (plural silversmiths)

1. A person who makes articles out of silver usually larger than jewellery.

Hypernyms

• smith, metalsmith

Translations

person who makes articles out of silver

• Albanian: argjendar (sq)
• Armenian: արծաթագործ (hy) (arcatʻagorc)
• Belarusian: сярэбраных спраў ма́йстар m (sjarebranyx spraw májstar), срэбных спраў ма́йстар m (srebnyx spraw májstar)
• Bulgarian: бижутер за сребро (bižuter za srebro)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: argenter
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 銀匠 / 银匠 (zh) (yínjiàng)

• Czech: stříbrník m, stříbrnice f, stříbrotepec (cs) m
• Danish: sølvsmed c
• Dutch: zilversmid (nl) m
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: hopeaseppä
• French: chaudronnier d'argent m, chaudronnière d'argent f
• Frisian:

  Saterland Frisian: Säälwersmid m

  West Frisian: sulversmid c

• Galician: prateiro m, prateira f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Silberschmied (de) m, Silberschmiedin (de) f, Gold- und Silberschmied m, Gold- und Silberschmiedin f
• Greek: αργυροχόος (el) (argyrochóos)

  Ancient Greek: ἀργυροχόος m (argurokhóos), ἀργυροκόπος m (argurokópos)

• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: ezüstműves (hu), ötvös (hu)
• Icelandic: silfursmiður m
• Italian: fabbro d'argento m, fabbra d'argento f
• Khmer: ជាងប្រាក់ (ciəngprak)
• Korean: 은 대장장이 (eun daejangjang'i)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: faber argentārius m
• Latvian: sudrabkalis m, sudrabkale f
• Lithuanian: sidãbrininkas m, sidãbrininkė f
• Low German:

  German Low German: Sülversmitt m

• Lü: ᦋᦱᧂᧈᦇᦹᧃ (tsaang¹nguen)
• Macedonian: кују́нџија m (kujúndžija)
• Maltese: arġentier m, arġentiera f
• Mon: please add this translation if you can
• Navajo: béésh łigaii yitsidí, béésh łigaiitsidí, béésh łigaii ííłʼíní
• Norman: argentchi m (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sølvsmed m

  Nynorsk: sølvsmed m, sylvsmed m

• Occitan: argentièr (oc) m
• Old English: seolforsmiþ m
• Persian: سیمگر (fa) (simgar), نقره‌گر (noqre-gar)
• Polish: złotnik (pl) m pers, złotniczka (pl) f
• Portuguese: prateiro m, prateira f
• Romagnol: please add this translation if you can
• Romanian: argintar (ro) m
• Russian: сере́бряный кузне́ц (serébrjanyj kuznéc)
• Scottish Gaelic: ceàrd-airgid m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кују̀нџија m

  Latin: kujùndžija (sh) m

• Spanish: platero (es) m, platera f
• Swahili: mfua fedha
• Swedish: silversmed c
• Tagalog: panday-pilak
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: gümüşçü (tr)
• Vietnamese: thợ bạc (vi)
• Volapük: largentismitan (vo), largentihismitan (male), largentijismitan (female)
• Yiddish: זילבערשמיד m (zilbershmid)
• Yoruba: àgbẹ̀dẹ fàdákà