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- Latin · learned borrowing fromadhāmāns“catching”
- English todayadhamant
From the Latin adhāmāns (“catching”, stem: adhāmant-), from adhāmō, from ad- + hāmus (“hook”) + -ō.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
adhamant
Today it means: Clinging, as if by hooks. Full definition →
Latin adhāmāns