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Adam

See also: adam, adām, ādām, Ádam, Âdam, Ádám, A'dam, and อาดัม

EnglishEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

From Middle English Adam, from Old English Adam, from 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”).

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Adam (plural Adams)

  1. (Abrahamic religions) The first man and the progenitor of the human race.
  2. A male given name from Hebrew.
    • 1859, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], “The Workshop”, in Adam Bede […], volume I, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book first, page 3:
      In his tall stalwartness Adam Bede was a Saxon, and justified his name; but the jet-black hair, made the more noticeable by its contrast with the light paper cap, and the keen glance of the dark eyes that shone from under strongly marked, proninent, and mobile eyebrows, indicated a mixture of Celtic blood.
    • 1904, Mark Twain, Extracts from Adam's Diary
      Since then I have deciphered some more of Adam’s hieroglyphics, and think he has now become sufficiently important as a public character to justify this publication.
    • 1933, Eleanor Farjeon, Over the Garden Wall, Faber and Faber 1933, page 90 ("Boys' Names")
      What splendid names for boys there are! / There's Carol like a rolling car, / And Martin like a flying bird, / And Adam like the Lord's First Word,
  3. (figuratively) Original sin or human frailty.
  4. (with second or last) Jesus Christ, whose sacrifice, in Christian theology, makes possible the forgiveness of Adam's original sin.
  5. Designating a neoclassical style of furniture and architecture in the style of Robert and James Adam.
    • 1936, HP Lovecraft, ‘The Haunter of the Dark’:
      Inside were six-panelled doors, wide floor-boards, a curving colonial staircase, white Adam-period mantels, and a rear set of rooms three steps below the general level.
    • 2001, Norman K. Risjord, Representative Americans: The Revolutionary Generation (page 164)
      McIntyre's best pieces, such as the fireplace in the Otis house, managed to convey both an opulent warmth and a restrained elegance, and compares favorably with the artistic saturnalia of an Adam fireplace.
  6. An English surname originating as a patronymic.
  7. A Scottish surname originating as a patronymic.
  8. A French surname originating as a patronymic.
  9. A German surname originating as a patronymic.

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surnames

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AlbanianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From 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 nounEdit

Adam m (definite Adami)

  1. a male given name, equivalent to English Adam
  2. (religion, Christianity) Adam (biblical figure)
  3. (religion, Islam) Adem (“Adam”)

DeclensionEdit

Declension of Adam
indefinite definite
singular plural singular plural
nominative Adam Adamë Adami Adamët
accusative Adam Adamë Adamin Adamët
genitive Adami Adamëve Adamit Adamëvet
dative Adami Adamëve Adamit Adamëvet
ablative Adami Adamësh Adamit Adamëvet

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CatalanEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Hebrew אָדָם‎ (adam, “earth, man, soil, light brown”).

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Adam m

  1. a male given name, equivalent to English Adam
  2. Adam (biblical figure)

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CornishEdit

PronunciationEdit

IPA(key): /ˈædəm/

Proper nounEdit

Adam

  1. Adam (biblical figure)

CzechEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Hebrew אָדָם‎ (adam, “earth, man, soil, light brown”).

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Adam m

  1. Adam (biblical figure)
  2. a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Adam

DeclensionEdit

Declension of Adam
singular plural
nominative Adam Adamové
genitive Adama Adamů
dative Adamovi, Adamu Adamům
accusative Adama Adamy
vocative Adame Adamové
locative Adamovi, Adamu Adamech
instrumental Adamem Adamy

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DanishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Hebrew אָדָם‎ (adam, “earth, man, soil, light brown”).

Proper nounEdit

Adam

  1. Adam (biblical figure)
  2. a male given name

DutchEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Middle Dutch Adam, from Latin Ādām, from Ancient Greek Ἀδάμ (Adám), from Hebrew אָדָם‎ (“Adam”).

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈaː.dɑm/
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: Adam

Proper nounEdit

Adam m

  1. Adam (Biblical character, mythological first man)
  2. a male given name from Hebrew

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EweEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Hebrew אָדָם‎ (adam, “earth, man, soil, light brown”).

Proper nounEdit

Adam

  1. Adam (biblical figure)
  2. a male given name

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FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Hebrew אָדָם‎ (adam, “earth, man, soil, light brown”).

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Adam m

  1. Adam (biblical figure)
  2. a diminutive of the male given names Adanet, Adenot, Adnet, or Adnot

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GermanEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Latin Adam, from Ancient Greek Ἀδάμ (Adám), from Hebrew אָדָם‎ (ʾāḏām, “man, soil, light brown”).

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Adam m (proper noun, strong, genitive Adams)

  1. (biblical) Adam
  2. a male given name; variant form Adi

HausaEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Arabic آدَم‎ (ʔādam).

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ʔá.dàm/
    • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [ʔá.dàŋ]

Proper nounEdit

Adàm m

  1. Adam (biblical character)

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IcelandicEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Hebrew אָדָם‎ (adam, “earth, man, soil, light brown”).

Proper nounEdit

Adam m

  1. Adam (biblical figure)
  2. a male given name

DeclensionEdit

declension of Adam
m-s1 singular
indefinite
nominative Adam
accusative Adam
dative Adam
genitive Adams

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ItalianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Alteration of MDMA.

NounEdit

Adam m (invariable)

  1. (informal) ecstasy (drug)

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LatinEdit

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Ādām m (variously declined, genitive Ādām or Ādae); indeclinable, first declension

  1. Adam (Biblical figure)
  2. (New Latin) a male given name, equivalent to English Adam

DeclensionEdit

Indeclinable noun or first-declension noun (nominative/vocative singular in -ām).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative Ādām Ādae
Genitive Ādām
Ādae 		Ādārum
Dative Ādām
Ādae 		Ādīs
Accusative Ādām Ādās
Ablative Ādām
Ādā 		Ādīs
Vocative Ādām Ādae

ReferencesEdit

  • “Adam”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Adam in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

MalteseEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Sicilian Adamu, Addamu and/or Italian Adamo, both from Latin Ādāmus, from Ancient Greek Ἀδάμ (Adám), from Hebrew אָדָם‎ (āḏām). All religious names (though not all religious words) in Maltese are borrowings from Romance. The inherited form from Arabic آدَم‎ (ʔādam) would be *Iedem, which is preserved in bniedem (“human being”, literally “son of Adam”).

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Adam m

  1. Adam

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Middle EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin Ādāmus, Ādām, from Ancient Greek Ἀδάμ (Adám), Ἄδαμος (Ádamos), from Biblical Hebrew אָדָם‎ (adam).

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /aˈdaːm/, /ˈadam/

Proper nounEdit

Adam

  1. Adam (Biblical progenitor of humankind).
  2. a male given name from Hebrew; Adam
  3. (with newe or last) Jesus Christ.

DescendantsEdit

  • English: Adam
  • Scots: Adam, Aidam

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NorwegianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Hebrew אָדָם‎ (adam, “earth, man, soil, light brown”).

Proper nounEdit

Adam

  1. Adam (biblical figure)
  2. a male given name

PolishEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

From Hebrew אָדָם‎ (adam, “earth, man, soil, light brown”).

PronunciationEdit

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Adam m pers (diminutive Adaś)

  1. Adam (biblical figure)
  2. a male given name, equivalent to English Adam

DeclensionEdit

Declension of Adam
singular plural
nominative Adam Adamowie
genitive Adama Adamów
dative Adamowi Adamom
accusative Adama Adamów
instrumental Adamem Adamami
locative Adamie Adamach
vocative Adamie Adamowie

Further readingEdit

  • Adam in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • Adam in Polish dictionaries at PWN

RomanianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic Адамъ (Adamŭ).

Proper nounEdit

Adam m

  1. a male given name
  2. a surname
  3. A village in Drăgușeni, Galați, Romania

ScotsEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Middle English Adam, from Latin Ādāmus, Ādām, from Ancient Greek Ἀδάμ (Adám).

PronunciationEdit

Proper nounEdit

Adam

  1. Adam (biblical figure)

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Serbo-CroatianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Hebrew אָדָם‎ (adam, “earth, man, soil, light brown”).

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ǎdam/
  • Hyphenation: A‧dam

Proper nounEdit

Àdam m (Cyrillic spelling А̀дам)

  1. Adam (biblical figure)
  2. a male given name

DeclensionEdit

Declension of Adam
singular
nominative Adam
genitive Adama
dative Adamu
accusative Adama
vocative Adame
locative Adamu
instrumental Adamom

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SlovakEdit

PronunciationEdit

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Adam m anim (genitive singular Adama, nominative plural Adamovia, genitive plural Adamov, declension pattern of chlap)

  1. Adam (biblical figure)
  2. a male given name

DeclensionEdit

Declension of Adam
singular plural
nominative Adam Adamovia
genitive Adama Adamov
dative Adamovi Adamom
accusative Adama Adamov
locative Adamovi Adamoch
instrumental Adamom Adamami

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Further readingEdit

  • Adam in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

SpanishEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /aˈdam/ [aˈð̞ãm]
  • Rhymes: -am
  • Syllabification: A‧dam

Proper nounEdit

Adam m

  1. Alternative form of Adán (“biblical figure”)
    • 1602 — La Santa Biblia (antigua versión de Casiodoro de Reina), rev., Génesis 2:20
      Y puso Adam nombres á toda bestia y ave de los cielos y á todoanimal del campo.

SwedishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Hebrew אָדָם‎ (adam, “earth, man, soil, light brown”).

InterjectionEdit

Adam

  1. The letter "A" in the Swedish spelling alphabet

Proper nounEdit

Adam c (genitive Adams)

  1. Adam (biblical figure)
  2. a male given name. Pet form: Adde

Tok PisinEdit

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EtymologyEdit

From English Adam.

Proper nounEdit

Adam

  1. Adam

TurkishEdit

Proper nounEdit

Adam

  1. a male given name

WalloonEdit

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Adam

  1. (biblical) Adam
  2. a male given name, equivalent to English Adam
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