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Adamas
adamas
adamas
Latin
Alternative forms
Noun
adamās m (genitive adamantis); third declension
- Adamant; the hardest steel or iron; diamond; an object made of adamant.
- Anything which is inflexible, firm or lasting.
- (figuratively, of one's character) Hard, unyielding, inexorable.
Inflection
Third declension.
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
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, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “adamas”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- adamas in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers