köken: From Late Latin diamantem, from Latin adamantem, from Ancient Greek ἀδάμας (adámas, “invincible, untamed; hard substance”), from ἀ- (a-, “un-”) + δαμάζω (damázō, “to overpower, tame, conquer”), from Proto-Indo-European *demh₂-.
köken: From Middle Dutch diamant, from Old French diamant, from Medieval Latin and Late Latin diamas, variant of Latin adamas. The typographic use derives from Dirck Voskens, who first cut it around 1700 and presumably named it by analogy with the larger parel.
köken: Borrowed from Late Latin diamantem, from Latin adamantem, from Ancient Greek ἀδάμᾱς (adámās, “invincible, untamed; hard substance”), from ἀ- (a-, “un-”) + δαμάζω (damázō, “to overpower, tame, conquer”), from Proto-Indo-European *demh₂-.
köken: From Byzantine Greek διαμάντιν (diamántin), from Italian diamante, from Late Latin diamas, from Latin adamās, from Ancient Greek ἀδάμας (adámas).
Inherited from Middle French diamant, from Old French diamant, from Late Latin diamas, probably from metathesis of adimas (whence aimant), from Latin adamās, ultimately from Ancient Greek ἀδάμας (adámas).