adamas
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;
nom. sg.voc. 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;
sg. pres. act. ind. 2nd
Examples
- D
Satura VI
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...nautis, grandia tolluntur crystallina, maxima rursus murrina, deinde adamas notissimus et Beronices in digito factus pretiosior. hunc dedit..." - L
de Constantia
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...quorundam lapidum inexpugnabilis ferro duritia est nec secari adamas aut caedi uel deteri potest sed incurrentia ultro retundit..." - P
Metamorphoses IV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...modo vir, modo femina Sithon. te quoque, nunc adamas, quondam fidissime parvo, Celmi, Iovi largoque satos Curetas..."