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"diamond" in seven languages

Meaningdiamond

Spanish

diamante

/djaˈmante/

masc.borrowed · probably Old French or Old Occitan diamant

French

diamant

/djamɑ̃/

masc.inherited

Italian

diamante

/djaˈmante/

masc.inherited

Portuguese

diamante

/dʒiaˈmɐ̃tʃi/

masc.borrowed · probably Old French or Old Occitan diamant

Romanian

diamant

/diaˈmant/

neut.borrowed · French diamant

Catalan

diamant

/diəˈman/

masc.borrowed · probably Old Occitan or Old French diamant

English

diamond

/ˈdaɪmənd/

from Latin/French · Old French diamant

English → ItaliandiamonddiamanteCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share

The Latin ancestor

DIAMANTEM (Late Latin, from ADAMANTEM)‘diamond; ADAMAS 'the hardest stone'’

All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.

The story

Classical ADAMAS, from Greek 'unconquerable', was the hardest stone; Late Latin reshaped it as DIAMANTEM, the source of all four words. English kept the older shape as adamant.

English relatives: adamant

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In a sentence

  • esLleva un anillo de diamantes.
  • frElle porte une bague en diamant.
  • itPorta un anello con un diamante.
  • ptEla usa um anel de diamante.
  • roPoartă un inel cu diamant.
  • caPorta un anell de diamants.
  • enShe wears a diamond ring.

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