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The name of Argentina (a Spanish adjective meaning "silvery"), traditionally called ''the Argentine'' in English,〔(Argentina ) from Oxford Dictionaries Online〕〔(Argentina ) — Infoplease.com〕 is ultimately derived from the Latin ''argentum'' "silver" and the feminine of the adjectival suffix -īnus. The first use of the name ''Argentina'' can be traced back to the first voyages made by the Spanish and Portuguese conquerors to the Río de la Plata (meaning "River of Silver"), in the first years of the 16th century. ==Colonization== Aleixo Garcia, one of the survivors of the shipwrecked expedition mounted by Juan Díaz de Solís in 1516, heard notices about a powerful ''White King'' in a country very rich in silver, at the mountains, called ''"Sierra de la Plata"''. Garcia then organized an expedition and reached Potosí's area, gaining several silver objects and gifts. He was killed by the Payaguas, returning to Santa Catarina (Brazil), but the Guaraní people who were part of the expedition took the silver objects back and spread the ''Sierra de Plata'' legend, and explained that it was possible to reach that fabulous land through the wide river located to the south. While the exact origin of the name Rio de la Plata is unknown, Sebastian Cabot's exploration between 1526 and 1529 is widely credited to have inspired such name due to his obtaining and collecting a variety of silver objects from the Guaraní tribes along the Paraguay river.〔(Rio de la Plata ) - Britannica Online Encyclopedia〕 The river received other names, such as ''Mar Dulce, Río de Solís, Río de Santa María, Río Jordán'', but ''Río de La Plata'' was the one that finally prevailed.〔(Instituto Geografico Nacional ) 〕 The Portuguese cartographer Lopo Homem made reference to the place as "''Terra Argentea''" in a 1554 map.〔 The first mention of the Argentina name was in Martín del Barco Centenera's poem ''Argentina y conquista del Río de la Plata, con otros acaecimientos de los reinos del Perú, Tucumán y estado del Brasil'', published in Spain in 1602.〔 Ten years later (1612) Ruy Díaz de Guzmán published the book ''Historia del descubrimiento, población, y conquista del Río de la Plata'' ("History of the discovery, population, and conquest of the Río de la Plata"), naming the territory discovered by Solís as ''Tierra Argentina'' ("Land of Silver", "Silvery Land"). In 1776 the Virreinato del Río de la Plata (Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata) was created, named after the river; it included present-day Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Name of Argentina」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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