Etymology

From Adam +‎ -icCategory:English terms suffixed with -ic#ADAMIC, modelled on LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#ADAMIC adamicus.^[1]

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /əˈdæmɪk/, /ˈædəmɪk/Category:English 3-syllable words#ADAMICCategory:English 3-syllable words#ADAMICCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#ADAMIC

Adjective

Adamic (not comparable)Category:English lemmas#ADAMICCategory:English adjectives#ADAMICCategory:English uncomparable adjectives#ADAMICCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#ADAMICCategory:Pages with entries#ADAMICCategory:Pages with 1 entry#ADAMIC

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 6 April 1870, 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; […]

     Category:English terms with quotations#ADAMIC

   • 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, […]

     Category:English terms with quotations#ADAMIC

Proper noun

AdamicCategory:English lemmas#ADAMICCategory:English proper nouns#ADAMICCategory:English uncountable nouns#ADAMICCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#ADAMICCategory:Pages with entries#ADAMICCategory:Pages with 1 entry#ADAMIC

1. (JudaismCategory:en:Judaism#ADAMIC) 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.

References

• Noah Webster (1828), “Adamic”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language: […], volume I (A–I), New York, N.Y.: […] S. Converse; printed by Hezekiah Howe […], →OCLC.
• “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