Adam

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See also: adam, adām, ādām, Ádam, Âdam, Ádám, and A'dam

English

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Etymology

From Middle English Adam, from Latin Adam, Adamus, from Ancient Greek Ἀδάμ (Adám), Ἄδαμος (Ádamos), from Biblical Hebrew אָדָם (adam, “earth, man, soil, light brown”), from אדמה (adamah, “red earth, ground”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈæ.dəm/
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  • Audio (UK)(file)
  • Homophone: atom (accents with flapping)

Proper noun

Adam (plural Adams)

  1. (Abrahamic religions) The first man and the progenitor of the human race.
  2. A male given name from Hebrew.
    • 1859 — George Eliot, Adam Bede, ch 1
      Adam Bede was a Saxon, and justified his name; but the jet-black hair, made the more noticeable by its contrast with the light paper cap, and the keen glance of the dark eyes that shone from under strongly marked, prominent and mobile eyebrows, indicated a mixture of Celtic blood.
    • 1904 — Mark Twain, Extracts from Adam's Diary
      Since then I have deciphered some more of Adam’s hieroglyphics, and think he has now become sufficiently important as a public character to justify this publication.
    • 1933 — Eleanor Farjeon, Over the Garden Wall, Faber and Faber 1933, page 90 ("Boys' Names")
      What splendid names for boys there are! / There's Carol like a rolling car, / And Martin like a flying bird, / And Adam like the Lord's First Word,
  3. (figuratively) Original sin or human frailty.
  4. (with second or last) Jesus Christ, whose sacrifice, in Christian theology, makes possible the forgiveness of Adam's original sin.
  5. Designating a neoclassical style of furniture and architecture in the style of Robert and James Adam.
    • 1936, HP Lovecraft, ‘The Haunter of the Dark’:
      Inside were six-panelled doors, wide floor-boards, a curving colonial staircase, white Adam-period mantels, and a rear set of rooms three steps below the general level.
  6. An English patronymic surname transferred from the given name
  7. A Scottish patronymic surname transferred from the given name
  8. A French patronymic surname transferred from the given name
  9. A German patronymic surname transferred from the given name

Alternative forms

  1. (English surname): Adams
  2. (Scottish surname): Adams, McAdam, McAdams, McCaw, MacAdam, MacAdams, MacCaw

Derived terms

Related terms

surnames

Translations

See also

Anagrams

Catalan

Etymology

From Hebrew אָדָם (adam, “earth, man, soil, light brown”).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Adam m

  1. a male given name, equivalent to English Adam.
  2. Adam (biblical figure)

Cornish

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /ˈædəm/

Proper noun

Adam

  1. Adam (biblical figure)

Czech

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Etymology

From Hebrew אָדָם (adam, “earth, man, soil, light brown”).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

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  1. Adam (biblical figure)
  2. a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Adam.

Declension

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Related terms

Danish

Etymology

From Hebrew אָדָם (adam, “earth, man, soil, light brown”).

Proper noun

Adam

  1. Adam (biblical figure)
  2. a male given name.

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch Adam, from Latin Ādām, from Ancient Greek Ἀδάμ (Adám), from Hebrew אָדָם‎ (“Adam”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈaː.dɑm/
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: Adam

Proper noun

Adam m

  1. Adam (Biblical character, mythological first man)
  2. a male given name from Hebrew.

Derived terms

Ewe

Etymology

From Hebrew אָדָם (adam, “earth, man, soil, light brown”).

Proper noun

Adam

  1. Adam (biblical figure)
  2. a male given name.

See also

French

Etymology

From Hebrew אָדָם (adam, “earth, man, soil, light brown”).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Adam ?

  1. Adam (biblical figure)
  2. a male given name.

Related terms

Anagrams

German

Etymology

From Hebrew אָדָם (adam, “earth, man, soil, light brown”).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Adam m

  1. Adam (biblical figure)
  2. a male given name. Pet form: Adi

Icelandic

Etymology

From Hebrew אָדָם (adam, “earth, man, soil, light brown”).

Proper noun

Adam m (genitive singular Adams, no plural)

  1. Adam (biblical figure)
  2. a male given name

Derived terms

See also

Anagrams

Italian

Etymology

Alteration of MDMA

Noun

Adam m (uncountable)

  1. (informal) ecstasy (drug)

Latin

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Ādām m (variously declined, genitive Ādām or Ādae); indeclinable, first declension

  1. Adam (Biblical character)

Declension

Indeclinable noun or first-declension noun (nominative/vocative singular in -ām).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative Ādām Ādae
Genitive Ādām
Ādae 		Ādārum
Dative Ādām
Ādae 		Ādīs
Accusative Ādām Ādās
Ablative Ādām
Ādā 		Ādīs
Vocative Ādām Ādae

References

  • “Adam”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Adam in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Maltese

Etymology

From Sicilian Adamu, Addamu and/or Italian Adamo, both from Latin Ādāmus, from Ancient Greek Ἀδάμ (Adám), from Hebrew אָדָם (āḏām). All religious names (though not all religious words) in Maltese are borrowings from Romance. The inherited form from Arabic آدَم (ʔādam) would be *Iedem, which is preserved in bniedem (“human being”, literally “son of Adam”).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Adam m

  1. Adam

Derived terms

Middle English

Etymology

From Latin Ādāmus, Ādām, from Ancient Greek Ἀδάμ (Adám), Ἄδαμος (Ádamos), from Biblical Hebrew אָדָם (adam).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aˈdaːm/, /ˈadam/

Proper noun

Adam

  1. Adam (Biblical progenitor of humankind).
  2. a male given name from Hebrew; Adam.
  3. (with newe or last) Jesus Christ.

Descendants

  • English: Adam
  • Scots: Adam, Aidam

References

Norwegian

Etymology

From Hebrew אָדָם (adam, “earth, man, soil, light brown”).

Proper noun

Adam

  1. Adam (biblical figure)
  2. a male given name.

Polish

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Etymology

From Hebrew אָדָם (adam, “earth, man, soil, light brown”).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Adam m pers (diminutive Adaś)

  1. Adam (biblical figure)
  2. a male given name, equivalent to English Adam.

Declension

Declension of Adam
singular plural
nominative Adam Adamowie
genitive Adama Adamów
dative Adamowi Adamom
accusative Adama Adamów
instrumental Adamem Adamami
locative Adamie Adamach
vocative Adamie Adamowie

Further reading

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Hebrew אָדָם (adam, “earth, man, soil, light brown”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ǎdam/
  • Hyphenation: A‧dam

Proper noun

Àdam m (Cyrillic spelling А̀дам)

  1. Adam (biblical figure)
  2. a male given name.

Declension

Declension of Adam
singular
nominative Adam
genitive Adama
dative Adamu
accusative Adama
vocative Adame
locative Adamu
instrumental Adamom

See also

Slovak

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Adam m (genitive singular Adama, nominative plural Adamovia, genitive plural Adamov, declension pattern of chlap)

  1. Adam (biblical figure)
  2. a male given name.

Declension

Declension of Adam
singular plural
nominative Adam Adamovia
genitive Adama Adamov
dative Adamovi Adamom
accusative Adama Adamov
locative Adamovi Adamoch
instrumental Adamom Adamami

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “Adam”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aˈdam/ [aˈð̞ãm]

Proper noun

Adam m

  1. Alternative form of Adán (“biblical figure”)
    • 1602 — La Santa Biblia (antigua versión de Casiodoro de Reina), rev., Génesis 2:20
      Y puso Adam nombres á toda bestia y ave de los cielos y á todoanimal del campo.

Swedish

Etymology

From Hebrew אָדָם (adam, “earth, man, soil, light brown”).

Proper noun

Adam c (genitive Adams)

  1. Adam (biblical figure)
  2. a male given name. Pet form: Adde.

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English Adam.

Proper noun

Adam

  1. Adam
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Turkish

Proper noun

Adam

  1. a male given name
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