adamante
Dictionary entries
- Entry →adamas, adamantis:
Masculine · Noun
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Technical
steel, hardest iron (early); anything hard, adamant; white sapphire; diamond;
abl. sg.dat. sg.loc. sg. - Entry →adamo, adamare, adamavi, adamatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
fall in love/lust with; love passionately/adulterously; admire greatly; covet;
abl. sg. pres. act. part.
Examples
Liber Tertius
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...Coeus in imo vincla Iovis fractoque trahens adamante catenas Saturnum Tityumque vocat spemque aetheris amens concipit, ast illum..."
Liber Septimus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...infestabat, trepidas spumare per herbas, signa aduentantis, clausaeque adamante perenni dissiluere fores. Hyrcano in sanguine pulcher ipse subit..."Liber Quartus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...Erebi, Scyllas et inane furentes Centauros solidoque intorta adamante Gigantum uincula et angustam centeni Aegaeonis umbram?' 'immo..."Liber Tertius
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...meis, reor, impenetrabilis armis aere gerens solidoque datos adamante lacertos uenerat; heu segnes, quorum labor haeret..."Liber Primus
Publius Papinius Statius from SILVAE
"...concede moveri, o genetrix: duro nec enim ex adamante creati, sed tua turba sumus. clarus de gente Latina..."Aeneid VI
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...Phlegethon, torquetque sonantia saxa. porta adversa ingens solidoque adamante columnae, vis ut nulla virum, non ipsi exscindere bello..."Metamorphoses XV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...ullas tuta atque aeterna ruinas; invenies illic incisa adamante perenni fata tui generis: legi ipse animoque notavi..."Metamorphoses VII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...restantem contraque diem radiosque micantes obliquantem oculos nexis adamante catenis Cerberon abstraxit, rabida qui concitus ira inplevit pariter..."