Argentinas

Argentinas is the feminine plural form of the Spanish demonym and adjective related to Argentina. In Spanish, the feminine singular is argentina, and the masculine plural is argentinos; the feminine plural argentinas can refer to groups of women from Argentina or to feminine nouns associated with the country. For example, las argentinas means “the Argentine women,” and canciones argentinas means “Argentine songs.” As an adjective, argentinas describes feminine nouns connected to Argentina, such as costumbres argentinas or cocina argentina.

The term derives from Argentina, a country in South America whose name stems from the Latin argentum, meaning silver. Early European observers linked the land with silver resources, influencing the naming of the country and the corresponding demonyms.

In English, the standard demonym for people from Argentina is Argentines, used for all genders. Argentinas is used primarily in Spanish-language contexts and is lowercase in standard Spanish, being capitalized only at the beginning of a sentence or in titles. There are no widely recognized places or organizations in English that use Argentinas as a proper noun; the form is linguistically used to discuss feminine groups or feminine nouns related to Argentina.