Adamic

See also: adamic and adàmic

English

Etymology

From Adam +‎ -ic, modelled on Latin adamicus.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /əˈdæmɪk/, /ˈædəmɪk/

Adjective

Adamic (not comparable)

1. 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 1870 April 6, 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

• Adamical

Derived terms

• Adamically
• Adamic earth
• post-Adamic
• pre-Adamic

 

Translations

relating to the Biblical character Adam

• Bulgarian: ада́мов (adámov)
• Catalan: adàmic
• French: adamique (fr)
• Portuguese: adâmico

Proper noun

Adamic

1. (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

• Arabic: اللُّغَة الْآدُمْيَة (al-luḡa(t) al-ʔādumya), لُغَة آدَم (luḡa(t) ʔādam)
• Bulgarian: ада́мов език (adámov ezik)
• Catalan: llenguatge adàmic f
• French: langue adamique f
• Japanese: アダムの言語 (アダムのげんご, Adamu no gengo)
• Portuguese: língua adâmica f, língua de Adão f

References

• Adamic in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.
• “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.

Anagrams

• cadmia