The corpus record — Latin

adamantinus

adamantinus · adj

hard as steel

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Where it lives

Carmina 2 · 1.5/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.4/10k
De Rerum Natura 1 · 0.21/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

ădămantĭnus — Lewis & Short

ădămantĭnus, a, um, adj., = a)dama/ntinos,

I hard as steel, etc., adamantine: saxa, Lucr. 2, 447: duritia, Plin. 37, 11, 73. —Hence poet., extremely hard, inflexible, invincible: clavi, Hor. C. 3, 24, 5: tunica, id. ib. 1, 6, 13: juga, Prop. 3, 9, 9; cf. aënus.

In the wild

adamantinae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 37.11.p3
adamantina Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 2.447
adamantina Horace, Carmina 1.6
adamantinae Apuleius, Metamorphoses 9.18
adamantina Propertius, Elegiae 3.11.9
adamantinos Horace, Carmina 3.24

Where it came from

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