Esperanto

Proper noun

Adamo ‎(accusative Adamon)

1. A male given name, the Esperanto equivalent of Adam.

Italian

Etymology

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”).

Proper noun

Adamo m

1. Adam (biblical character).
2. A male given name.

Latin

Noun

Ādāmō

1. dative singular of Ādāmus
2. ablative singular of Ādāmus

Latin

Verb

adamō ‎(present infinitive adamāre, perfect active adamāvī, supine adamātum); first conjugation

1. I love truly, earnestly, deeply or greatly; covet.

Inflection

In Classical Latin, adamō was only used in the perfect and pluperfect tenses.

Descendants

• Spanish: adamar

References

• adamo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• adamo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “adamo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be an enthusiastic devotee of letters: litteras adamasse (only in perf. and plup.)
    
  • to become devoted to some one: adamasse aliquem (only in Perf. and Plup.) (Nep. Dion 2. 3)
    

Spanish

Verb

adamo

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of adamar.