English
adamancy
Adamancy comes from Ancient Greek ἀδάμας ‘adamant, the hardest metal’.
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEἀδάμαςadámas‘adamant, the hardest metal’
- Englishearliest quotation 1979adamancy
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEἀδάμαςadámas‘adamant, the hardest metal’
- Englishearliest quotation 1979adamancy
Earliest quotation: 1979, Andy Beck, Parents of Gays: “Knowing the stubbornness and adamancy of born-again Christians, they're…”
Formed from -ancy
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *demh₂- ‘to tame, domesticate’
through Ancient Greek δαμνάω ‘conquer’
Today it means
noun The property of being adamant.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Ancient Greek ἀδάμας / adamancy