adamas

See also: Adamas, adamás, adāmas, and adāmās

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀδάμας (adámas, “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, invincible, unconquerable, unyielding, inexorable, stubborn, intractable.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	adamās	adamantēs
genitive	adamantis	adamantum
dative	adamantī	adamantibus
accusative	adamantem adamanta	adamantēs adamantas
ablative	adamante	adamantibus
vocative	adamās	adamantēs

Derived terms

• adamantēus
• adamantinus

Descendants

• → Albanian: adham
• → English: adamant, diamond (via Old French)
• → Irish: adhmaint
• Italian: adamante
• Portuguese: adamante
• Spanish: adamante
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *adimas, *adimantem, *diamas, *diamantem
  • Catalan: imant, diamant (via French)
  • Old French: aimant, diamant
    • French: aimant, diamant (see there for further descendants)
  • Italian: diamante
  • Istriot: giamanto
  • Portuguese: diamante, ímã
  • Sicilian: damanti, diamanti
  • Spanish: 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

Middle English

Alternative forms

• adames

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /adəˈmaːs/, /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.

Polish

Pronunciation

• (Middle Polish) IPA^(key): /aˈda.mas/

Noun

adamas m animacy unattested

1. Middle Polish form of adamant (“diamond”)

Declension

Attested forms of adamas

	singular	plural
nominative	adamas	—
genitive	—	—
dative	—	—
accusative	adamas	—
instrumental	—	—
locative	—	—
vocative	—	—

Spanish

Verb

adamas

1. second-person singular present indicative of adamar