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If you're referring to a particular diamond -- usually over 20 carats, if you own it, you can name it.

Otherwise, diamond, the mineral, is named such, according to the Online Etymology Dictionary:

"...early 14c., from Old French diamant, from Medieval Latin diamantem (nominative diamas), from Vulgar Latin adiamantem (altered by influence of the many Greek words in dia-), from Latin adamantem (nominative adamans) [meaning] 'the hardest metal',"

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