argot

See also: Argot

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French argot, of unknown origin.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɑːɡəʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɑɹɡoʊ/, /ˈɑɹɡət/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɑːɹɡəʊ

Noun

argot (plural argots)

1. A secret language or conventional slang peculiar to thieves, tramps and vagabonds.

   Synonyms: cant, jargon, slang

   • 2012, Stephen King, 11/22/63, p. 338-9:

     Sadie had, in the argot of the day, a really good built.

2. The specialized informal vocabulary and terminology used between people with special skill in a field, such as between doctors, mathematicians or hackers.

   Synonym: jargon

   The conversation was in the argot of the trade, full of acronyms and abbreviations that made no sense to the uninitiate.

Derived terms

• argotic

Translations

secret language of thieves, tramps and vagabonds

• Azerbaijani: arqo, jarqon, qarğadili
• Bulgarian: арго (argo), жаргон (bg) (žargon)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 黑話／黑话 (zh) (hēihuà), 切口 (zh) (qièkǒu), 隱語／隐语 (zh) (yǐnyǔ)

• Czech: argot (cs) m
• Finnish: salakieli (fi)
• French: argot (fr) m
• German: Argot (de) (for argot in France), Rotwelsch (de) (for argot in Germany or Rotwelsch)
• Greek: αργκό (el) f (argkó), αργοτική f (argotikí), κοινωνιόλεκτος (el) f (koinoniólektos)
• Hungarian: argó (hu)
• Italian: gergo (it) m
• Korean: 은어 (ko) (euneo), 변말 (byeonmal), 수어 (sueo)
• Persian: لوتر (fa) (lutar), لوترا (fa) (lutrâ)
• Polish: argot (pl) n
• Portuguese: calão (pt) m, argot m
• Russian: фе́ня (ru) f (fénja) (in the criminal world), сленг (ru) m (sleng), жарго́н (ru) m (žargón), арго́ (ru) n (argó)
• Slovak: argot m
• Spanish: argot (es) m

specialized vocabulary and terminology of a field

• Bulgarian: жаргон (bg) (žargon)
• Catalan: argot (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 行話／行话 (zh) (hánghuà), 俚語／俚语 (zh) (lǐyǔ)

• Finnish: slangi (fi), ammattislangi (fi), ammattikieli (fi)
• Greek: ιδιογλωσσία f (idioglossía), ιδιόλεκτο (el) n (idiólekto)
• Hungarian: argó (hu), terminológia (hu)
• Italian: gergo (it) m, parlata (it) f, idioletto m
• Korean: 전문어 (ko) (jeonmuneo), 전용어 (jeonyong'eo)
• Polish: argot (pl) n
• Portuguese: jargão (pt) m, argot m
• Russian: жарго́н (ru) m (žargón)
• Spanish: argot (es) m

Anagrams

• groat, gator, gotra, Groat, RATOG, 'gator

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from French argot.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔt

Noun

argot m (plural argots)

1. slang, argot
2. jargon

Further reading

• “argot” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Etymology

Of obscure origin, first attested in 1628.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aʁ.ɡo/, (older, now chiefly Belgium) /aʁ.ɡɔ/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -o, -ɔ

Noun

argot m (plural argots)

1. slang
   • 1862, Victor Hugo, chapter 1, in Les Misérables, Tome IV : L’idylle rue Plumet et l’épopée rue Saint-Denis, book 7:

     Qu’est-ce que l’argot ? C’est tout à la fois la nation et l’idiome ; c’est le vol sous ses deux espèces, peuple et langue.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. cant (secret language)

Derived terms

• argotier
• argotique
• argotisme
• argotiste
• argotologie

 

Descendants

• → Catalan: argot
• → English: argot
• → Galician: argot
• → German: Argot
• → Greek: αργκό (argkó)
• → Hungarian: argó
• → Italian: argot
• → Polish: argot
• → Portuguese: argot
• → Romanian: argou
• → Russian: арго́ (argó)
• → Spanish: argot
• → Turkish: argo

Further reading

• argot on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr
• “argot”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• ragot

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French argot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /arˈɡɔ/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔ
• Syllabification: ar‧got

Noun

argot m inan or n (indeclinable)

1. (linguistics, literary) argot, jargon, slang

   Synonyms: gwara, slang, żargon

Declension

Indeclinable

or

Declension of argot

	singular	plural
nominative	argot	argoty
genitive	argotu	argotów
dative	argotowi	argotom
accusative	argot	argoty
instrumental	argotem	argotami
locative	argocie	argotach
vocative	argocie	argoty

Derived terms

nouns

• argotyzm

 

Further reading

• argot in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• argot in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Anagrams

• grota

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• argô (rare)

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French argot.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aʁˈɡo/ [aɦˈɡo]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aʁˈɡo/ [aɦˈɡo]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /aɾˈɡo/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /aʁˈɡo/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /aɻˈɡo/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /aɾˈɡo/ [aɾˈɣo]

Noun

argot m (plural argots)

1. (linguistics) argot (a secret language used by thieves, tramps and vagabonds)

   Synonym: calão

2. (linguistics) argot (specialised vocabulary and terminology of a field)

   Synonym: jargão

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French argot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aɾˈɡot/ [aɾˈɣ̞ot̪]
• Rhymes: -ot
• Syllabification: ar‧got

Noun

argot m (plural argot)

1. slang, argot

   Synonym: jerga

Further reading

• “argot”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10