ADAMANTINE

PRONUNCIATION: (ad-uh-MAN-teen/tin)

MEANING: adjective:
1. Unyielding; inflexibly firm.
2. Resembling adamant or diamond in hardness or luster.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin adamant (hard metal, steel, diamond, etc.), from Greek adamas (adamant), from a- (not) + daman (to conquer). Earliest documented use: around 1225.
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MADAM ANTINE - owner of Antine's Escort Services, LLC

ADAMANT MINE - where very hard minerals are extracted

A DAMN TINE - I've been impaled on one of the points of a pitchfork