Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /aðámas/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /aðámas/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /aðámas/

Adjective

ἀδάμᾱς • ‎(adámās) m, f ‎(neuter ?); third declension

1. unconquerable
   1. (masculine substantive) adamant, the hardest metal (probably steel)
      1. (figuratively) fixed, unalterable
      2. a hard metal resembling gold
      3. diamond
   2. not to be broken, inflexible

Noun

ἀδᾰ́μᾱς • ‎(adámās) m ‎(genitive ἀδᾰ́μᾰντος); third declension

1. adamant
2. diamond

Inflection

Descendants

• Latin: adamās
  • English: adamant
  • Spanish: adamante
  • Medieval Latin: diamas, diamant-
    • Old French: diamant
      • English: diamond

References

• ἀδάμας in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἀδάμας in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «ἀδάμας» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «ἀδάμας» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• ἀδάμας in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• «ἀδάμας» in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th-12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • adamant idem, page 10.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 19
• Skok, Petar (1971), “adàmanat”, in Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (in Serbo-Croatian), volume I, Zagreb: JAZU, pages 8–9