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(with regular Latin nominative ending, in later Latin texts). The Gaulish name is a compound of arganto(n)- (cognate to Latin argentum, which gave modern French argent), the Gaulish word for silver; and -rati, the Gaulish word for fortified enclosures, cognate to the Old Irish ráth (see ringfort). Arganto also referred to any precious metal, particularly gold, which suggests that the settlement began either as a fortified enclosure located by a river gold mining site, or as

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