adamas

See also: Adamas, adamás, adāmas, and adāmās

Latin

Alternative forms

• adamāns

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀδάμας (adámas, “unconquerable, invincible”), either from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + δαμνάω (damnáō, “conquer”) or of Semitic origin.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈa.da.maːs/, [ˈäd̪ämäːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.da.mas/, [ˈäːd̪ämäs]

Noun

adamās m (genitive adamantis); third declension

1. Adamant; the hardest steel or iron; diamond; an object made of adamant.
2. Anything which is inflexible, firm or lasting.
3. (figuratively, of one's character) Hard, unyielding, inexorable.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	adamās	adamantēs
Genitive	adamantis	adamantum
Dative	adamantī	adamantibus
Accusative	adamantem	adamantēs
Ablative	adamante	adamantibus
Vocative	adamās	adamantēs

Derived terms

• adamantēus
• adamantinus

Descendants

• Albanian: adham
• English: adamant, diamond
• French: aimant, diamant
• Irish: adhmaint
• Istriot: giamanto

• Italian: adamante, diamante
• Portuguese: adamante, diamante, ímã
• Romanian: diamant
• Spanish: adamante, diamante, imán

References

• “adamas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “adamas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• adamas in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• adamas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “adamas”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• adames

Etymology

From Latin adamās, from Ancient Greek ἀδάμας (adámas). Compare adamant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈadəmas/

Noun

adamas

1. (rare) adamant, adamantine (valuable gemstone)
2. (rare) A natural magnet; magnetite.

References

• “adamas (n.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-11.

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Spanish

Verb

adamas

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) present indicative form of adamar.