adamantium

English

Etymology

From adamant +‎ -ium (suffix forming humorous- or scientific-sounding fictional substance names).

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Noun

adamantium (uncountable)

  1. (fiction, also attributive) A fictional metal which is indestructible or nearly so.
    Synonym: adamantine
    • 1941 June, Malcolm Jameson, “Devil's Powder”, in Astounding Science-Fiction‎[1], volume 27, number 4, Street & Smith:
      It was a bullet. It was a small slug of adamantium, the toughest and hardest of all metals, crammed to capacity with the terrific explosive feroxite and would burst instantly on any reasonable heavy impact.
    • 1969 July, Roy Thomas, “Betrayal”, in Avengers, volume 1, number 66, Marvel Comics:
      It's imperative that these experiments be concluded with haste! The military must know the potential of this new adamantium at once! Even the President is standing by!
      The first use in a Marvel Comics work.
    • 2004, Neal Asher, Gridlinked, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 324:
      We knew the egg was adamantium. Not much else could have been learnt.

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Latin

Participle

adamantium

  1. genitive masculine/feminine/neuter plural of adamāns

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English adamantium.

Pronunciation

  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /a.daˈmɐ̃.t͡ʃiw̃/ [a.daˈmɐ̃.t͡ʃiʊ̯̃]
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ɐ.dɐˈmɐ̃.tiw̃/ [ɐ.ðɐˈmɐ̃.tiw̃]

  • Hyphenation: a‧da‧man‧ti‧um

Noun

adamantium m (uncountable)

  1. (fiction) adamantium (fictional indestructible metal)
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