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Adamant is often believed to have come from Latin adamare, meaning to love to excess. It is in fact derived from Greek แผδฮฌμας, meaning indomitable. There was a further confusion about whether the substance referred to is diamond or lodestone.
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Seeming contronyms can arise from translation. In Hawaiian, for example, aloha is translated both as "hello" and as "goodbye", but the essential meaning of the word is "love", whether used as a greeting or farewell. Similarly, ์๋ (annyeong) in Korean can mean both "hello" and
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Antonyms are words with opposite or nearly opposite meanings. For example: hot ↔ cold, large ↔ small, thick ↔ thin, synonym ↔ antonym; Hypernyms and hyponyms are words that refer to, respectively, a general category and a specific instance of that category. For example, vehicle is a hypernym of car, and car is a hyponym of vehicle.
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