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Where does “Adamic” come from?

Adamic comes from English Adam, influenced by French -ique and Latin -icus suffixes deriving from Proto-Indo-European -kos, ultimately from Hebrew אדמה meaning "earth" or "ground."

Adamic (English): Of, relating to, or resembling the Biblical...

Definitions

  1. Of, relating to, or resembling the Biblical...

Ancestry of “Adamic”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishAdam—
2Middle EnglishAdam—
3Old EnglishAdam—
4LatinĀdām—
5Ancient Greekἀδάμ—
6Hebrewאָדָםearth, man, soil, light brown; Adam; man, person
7Hebrewאדמהearth, soil, land

Words derived from “Adamic”

  • preadamic
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