Adele

Meanings

1. A female given name from the Germanic languages.

1. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and neighboring Togo.

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

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