The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromἀδάμᾱς“hard metal, diamond”
- English todaydiamante
Borrowed from French diamanté (“adorned with diamonds”). From past participle of diamanter (“adorn with diamonds”), from diamant (“diamond”), from oblique stem of Ancient Greek ἀδάμᾱς (adámās, “hard metal, diamond”).
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekἀδάμᾱς all →
diamond
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.