adamas

adamās, antis, m.: that which cannot be overcome; the hardest iron, steel, adamant, 6.552.

ădămas, antis, m. (acc. Gr. adamanta, adamantas), = ἀδάμας (invincible),

• adamant, the hard est iron or steel; hence poet., for any thing inflexible, firm, lasting, etc. (first used by Verg.): porta adversa ingens solidoque adamante columnae, Verg. A. 6, 552; cf. Mart. 5, 11; adamante texto vincire, with adamantine chains, Sen. Herc. F. 807.—Trop. of character, hard, unyielding, inexorable: nec rigidos silices solidumve in pectore ferrum aut adamanta gerit, a heart of stone, Ov. M. 9, 615: lacrimis adamanta movebis, will move a heart of stone, id. A. A. 1, 659; so id. Tr. 4, 8, 45: voce tua posses adamanta movere, Mart. 7, 99: duro nec enim ex adamante creati, Sed tua turba sumus, Stat. S. 1, 2, 69. —
• II The diamond: adamanta infragilem omni cetera vi sanguine hireino rumpente, Plin. 20, prooem. 1; 37, 4, 15, § 55 sq.

adamās (auch adamāns, Solin. 52, 57), antis, Akk. antem od. anta, m. (ἀδάμας), eig. der Unbezwingbare; dah. I) das härteste Eisen, der Stahl, bei Dichtern für hartes Metall, festes Erz übh., solido adamante columnae, Verg.: nexae adamante catenae, Ov.: adamante texto vincire, Sen. poët.: adamas licet alliget illud, eherne Bande, Ov. – Dah. bei Dichtern als Sinnbild »eines harten, unempfindlichen, unbeugsamen Sinnes«, duritiā ferrum ut superes aut adamanta, Ov.: in pectore ferrum aut adamanta gerit, Ov.: lacrimis, voce suā adamanta movere, Kieselsteine od. ein Herz von Stein bewegen (rühren), Ov. u. Mart. – II) der Diamant, Plin. u.a.

adamas [ἀδάμας] , ‘adamant’, lodestone (magnetic iron oxide) or diamond, or a substance supposed to combine the properties of both. b (fig.). adamans, genus lapidis ferro durior GlC A 245; mox adamante Cypri praesente potentia fraudor Aldh. Aen. 25 (Magnes) 5; [gagates] levem materiam attrahit ut ~as ferrum Gosc. Aug. Maj. 52; sed vincit victrix vis adamantis eum Neckam DS VI 216; ~as est lapis Indicus; ‥ habet ‥ splendorem cristallinum; ‥ dissidet in hoc a magnete quia ‥ Bart. Angl. XVI 7; trahitur [trica] a stella illa sicut ferrum ab ~ante Gros. 38; magnes presente ~ante actionem hanc [attractivam] non exercet Ps.-Gros. 613; 1346 item †en xij petris adamauntis vocatis seilstones KR Ac 27/5; sicut inclinacio ferri ad deorsum suspenditur per attraccionem ~antis Wycl. Log. II 161; magnes lapis est qui et ~as dicitur et diamas, i. durissimus ille lapis SB 28; adamans, quidam lapis, G. et A. aymant Alph. 3.  b adamante ligatur / janua Hanv. II 259; cum ‥ memoratis personis quasi quibusdam ~antibus attractivis librorum uteremur R. Bury Phil. 8. 144.

ădămās (13) ( ădămāns Sol. 52, 57 ), antis, m. [acc. anta ] (ἀδάμας), le fer le plus dur, acier : Virg. En. 6, 552 ; Prop. 4, 11, 4 ; Ov. M. 4, 453, etc. || [fig.] Ov. H. 2, 137 ; M. 9, 614, etc. || le diamant : Plin. 37, 55 ; 37, 57, etc.

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adamās antis, m

• , ἀδάμας, adamant, hardest iron, steel: solido adamante columnae, V.—Fig., of character: in pectore adamanta gerere, O.

Adămas

(ἀδάμας). A name given by the ancients to several hard substances, and among the rest possibly to the diamond. Psellus describes adamas as follows: “Its color resembles crystal, and is splendid,” which certainly seems appropriate to the diamond. But Pliny (Pliny H. N. xxxvii. 15), in his account of adamas, has evidently confounded the properties of several different minerals, all of which, by their hardness, received from the Greeks the name ἀδάμας. Thus Hesychius applies the name to steel; Pollux to grains of native gold; and Dionysius Periegetes to what was probably fine crystals of quartz. In fact, the ancients knew diamonds, if at all, only in their unpolished state, by which such epithets as “all-resplendent” would scarcely have been suggested. See Gemma.