Adamic
English
Etymology
From Adam + -ic, modelled on Latin adamicus.[1]
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /əˈdæmɪk/, /ˈædəmɪk/
Adjective
Adamic (not comparable)
- Of, relating to, or resembling the Biblical character Adam.
- 1870 April 5, Blossom [pseudonym], “[Letter from San Francisco. [Regular Correspondence to the News.]] The Earthquake.”, in Gold Hill Daily News, volume XIII, number 2001, Gold Hill, Nev., published 6 April 1870, page [2], column 2:
- The story of the man who was bathing at the time, and ran out in Adamic costume, has been told too often, and for a fictional individual he has become altogether too notorious; […]
- 2020, Paul M. Blowers, Visions and Faces of the Tragic […] , Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 127:
- As a consequence of the primeval peripety, the Adamic fall narrated in Genesis 3, […]
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
relating to the Biblical character Adam
Proper noun
Adamic
- (Judaism) The language believed to have been spoken by Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden in the biblical account of creation; considered by some traditions as the original or divine language from which all others descended.
Translations
proto-language spoken by Adam and Eve
References
- Noah Webster (1828) “Adamic”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language: […], volume I (A–I), New York, N.Y.: […] S. Converse; printed by Hezekiah Howe […], →OCLC.
- “Adamic”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- "Adamic" in the Wordsmyth Dictionary-Thesaurus © Wordsmyth 2002.
- Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
- Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996.
- ^ “Adamic, adj.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.