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Adele

//əˈdɛl// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A female given name from the Germanic languages.

    "The beauty and simplicity of names are altogether arbitrary: Mary and Elizabeth, and Judith, may suit a taste formed on the Puritan model, that is to say, an English and Scottish taste: the French consider Victoire, Adele, Adriane, or any other such “fanciful and romantic” names, quite as simple, and perhaps as beautiful, as Mr. Stuart does Mary and Jane."

  2. 2
    A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and neighboring Togo.
Noun
  1. 1
    An infinite sequence consisting of a real number and a p-adic number for every prime number p, such that all but finitely many of them are p-adic integers. More generally, a member of a self-dual topological ring built on any algebraic number field, and involving in a symmetric way all the completions of the field.

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French Adèle, equivalent of Adela, from a Germanic root meaning “noble”. Compare athel, German edel, Old English æþele.

Etymology 2

Blend of additive + idele; coined by André Weil.

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