Atlas

See also: atlas

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈætləs/
• Homophone: atlas

Etymology 1

From Latin Ā̆tlās, from Ancient Greek Ἄτλας (Átlas), either from ἁ- (ha-, copulative prefix) + Proto-Indo-European *telh₂- (“bear, undergo, endure”) or of origin.

Proper noun

Atlas (countable and uncountable, plural Atlases)

1. (Greek mythology) The son of Iapetus and Clymene, war leader of the Titans ordered by the god Zeus to support the sky on his shoulders; father to Hesperides, the Hyades, and the Pleiades; king of the legendary Atlantis.
2. A placename
   1. (astronomy) A moon of Saturn.
   2. (astronomy) A crater in the last quadrant of the moon.
   3. (astronomy) A triple star system in the Pleiades open cluster (M45) also known as 27 Tauri.
3. (countable) A surname.
4. (astronautics, military, US) The SM-65, an early ICBM, soon developed into a long-lived orbital launch vehicle series.

Derived terms

• Atlantean
• Atlas wheatear

Related terms

• Atlas Mountains

Translations

Greek mythology

• Ancient Greek: Ἄτλας (Átlas)
• Arabic: أَطْلَس m (ʔaṭlas)
• Armenian: Ատլաս (hy) (Atlas)
• Catalan: Atles (ca) m
• Czech: Atlás m
• Danish: Atlas
• Dutch: Atlas (nl) m
• Estonian: Atlas (et)
• Finnish: Atlas (fi)
• French: Atlas (fr)
• Galician: Atlas m
• Georgian: ატლანტი (aṭlanṭi), ატლასი (aṭlasi)
• German: Atlas (de) m
• Greek: Άτλας (el) m (Átlas)

  Ancient: Ἄτλας m (Átlas)

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• Hungarian: Atlasz (hu)
• Irish: Atlás m
• Italian: Atlante m
• Latvian: Atlants m
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Occitan: Atlàs (oc) m
• Persian: اطلس (fa) (atlas)
• Polish: Atlas (pl) m
• Portuguese: Atlas (pt) m
• Russian: А́тлас (ru) m (Átlas), Атла́нт (ru) m (Atlánt)
• Serbo-Croatian: Atlas m
• Slovak: Atlas m, Atlás m
• Slovene: Atlas, Atlant
• Spanish: Atlas (es) m, Atlante (es) m
• Swedish: Atlas (sv) c

a moon of Saturn

• Catalan: Atles (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 土衛十五／土卫十五, 土卫十五 (Tǔwèishíwǔ)

• Danish: Atlas
• Dutch: Atlas (nl) m
• Finnish: Atlas (fi)
• French: Atlas (fr)
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• Georgian: ატლასი (aṭlasi)
• German: Atlas (de) m
• Hungarian: Atlasz (hu)
• Portuguese: Atlas (pt)
• Serbo-Croatian: Atlas m

a crater of the moon

• Danish: Atlas
• Finnish: Atlas (fi)
• French: Atlas (fr)
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• German: Atlas (de) m
• Hungarian: Atlasz (hu)
• Serbo-Croatian: Atlas

a star in the Pleiades

• Maori: Tupuārangi
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intercontinental ballistic missile

• Finnish: Atlas (fi)
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• German: Atlas (de) m

Noun

Atlas (plural Atlases)

1. (astronautics, military, US) A particular model or individual specimen of the Atlas missile and launch vehicle line.

Proper noun

Atlas (plural Atlases)

1. A subgroup of the Berber languages.

Related terms

• Central Atlas Tamazight

Anagrams

• AASLT, Aalst, Salta, salat, talas

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Atlas, from Ancient Greek Ἄτλας (Átlas).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑt.lɑs/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: At‧las

Proper noun

Atlas m

1. (Greek mythology) Atlas (mythological giant)
2. (uncommon) Atlas Mountains

   Synonym: Atlasgebergte

3. (astronomy) Atlas (moon of Saturn)

Derived terms

• atlas
• Atlasgebergte

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French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin Atlas, from Ancient Greek Ἄτλας (Átlas).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.tlas/

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Atlas m

1. (Greek mythology) Atlas (son of Iapetus and Clymene, leader of the Titans ordered by Zeus to support the sky on his shoulders)
2. (astronomy) Atlas (moon of Saturn)
3. (astronomy) Atlas (star in the Pleiades)
4. (astronomy) Atlas (crater in the first quadrant of the moon)
5. Atlas Mountains

Related terms

• atlante

Derived terms

• cèdre de l’Atlas

 

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German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈatlas/

• Audio (Berlin):

  (file)

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin Atlās or from Ancient Greek Ἄτλας (Átlas), from the name of the mythological figure Ἄτλας (Átlas, “Bearer (of the Heavens)”).

Noun

Atlas m (strong, genitive Atlas or Atlasses or Atlanten, plural Atlanten)

1. (cartography or reference work) atlas (bound collection of maps)
   • 1902, Geologisches Centralblatt, volume 2, page 17:

     In diesem System der Arbeitstheilung, sowie in der ungenügenden topographischen Grundlage 1 : 50 000 liegt auch die Schwäche des Atlasses, der gleichwohl für jene Zeit ein hervorragendes Werk darstellte.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. atlas (bound collection of tables, illustrations on any subject)
   • 2008, Frank H. Netter, translation by Roland Mühlbauer, Atlas der Anatomie, fourth edition, →ISBN, preface:

     Jeder von ihnen hat einen Abschnitt des Atlanten gegengelesen, korrigiert und auf den neuesten Stand gebracht.

     Each one of them checked, corrected, and brought a chapter of the atlas up to date.

3. (uncommon) atlas (figure of a man used as a column)

   Synonym: Atlant

Declension

Declension of Atlas [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Atlas	die	Atlanten
genitive	eines	des	Atlas, Atlasses, Atlanten	der	Atlanten
dative	einem	dem	Atlas, Atlasse1	den	Atlanten
accusative	einen	den	Atlas	die	Atlanten

¹Now rare, see notes.

Noun

Atlas m (strong, genitive Atlas or Atlasses or Atlanten, plural Atlasse)

1. (medicine) atlas (uppermost vertebra of the neck)
   • 1893, Deutsche Zeitschrift für Chirurgie, volume 35, edited by A. Lücke and E. Rose, page 559:

     Halswirbel zeigt sich an der rechten unteren Gelenkfläche des Atlas eine leicht bogenförmige, usurirte [sic] Linie im Gelenkknorpel: […]

     The cervical vertebra manifests on the right anterior articular surface of the atlas a slightly arcuate, abraded line in the articular cartilage: […]

Declension

Declension of Atlas [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Atlas	die	Atlasse
genitive	eines	des	Atlas, Atlasses, Atlanten	der	Atlasse
dative	einem	dem	Atlas, Atlasse1	den	Atlassen
accusative	einen	den	Atlas	die	Atlasse

¹Now rare, see notes.

Proper noun

der Atlas m (proper noun, strong, usually definite, definite genitive des Atlas or des Atlasses or des Atlanten)

1. the Atlas Mountains (a mountain range in northwestern Africa)

Declension

Declension of Atlas [sg-only, masculine, strong]

	singular
	def.	noun
nominative	der	Atlas
genitive	des	Atlas, Atlasses, Atlanten
dative	dem	Atlas, Atlasse1
accusative	den	Atlas

¹Now rare, see notes.

Proper noun

Atlas m (proper noun, strong, genitive Atlas' or (with an article) Atlas)

1. (astronomy) Atlas (moon of Saturn)
2. (astronomy) Atlas (star in the Pleiades)
3. (astronomy) Atlas (crater in the first quadrant of the moon)

Declension

Declension of Atlas [sg-only, masculine, strong]

	singular
	indef.	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Atlas
genitive	eines	des	Atlas', Atlas1
dative	einem	dem	Atlas
accusative	einen	den	Atlas

¹With an article.

Proper noun

Atlas m (proper noun, strong, genitive Atlas', plural Atlasse)

1. (Greek mythology) Atlas (son of Iapetus and Clymene, leader of the Titans ordered by Zeus to support the sky on his shoulders)
2. an unknown-gender given name

Declension

Declension of Atlas [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Atlas	die	Atlasse
genitive	eines	des	Atlas'	der	Atlasse
dative	einem	dem	Atlas	den	Atlassen
accusative	einen	den	Atlas	die	Atlasse

Proper noun

Atlas m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Atlas' or (with an article) Atlas, feminine genitive Atlas, plural Atlas or Atlasens)

1. a surname

Declension

Declension of Atlas [masculine // feminine, surname]

	singular						plural
	masculine			feminine
	indef.	def.	noun	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	(ein)	(der)	Atlas	(eine)	(die)	Atlas	(die)	Atlas, Atlasens
genitive	(eines)	(des)	Atlas', Atlas1	(einer)	(der)	Atlas	(der)	Atlas, Atlasens
dative	(einem)	(dem)	Atlas	(einer)	(der)	Atlas	(den)	Atlas, Atlasens
accusative	(einen)	(den)	Atlas	(eine)	(die)	Atlas	(die)	Atlas, Atlasens

¹With an article.

Proper noun

die Atlas f (proper noun, usually definite, definite genitive der Atlas)

1. Atlas (family of US intercontinental ballistic missiles)

Declension

Declension of Atlas [sg-only, feminine]

	singular
	def.	noun
nominative	die	Atlas
genitive	der	Atlas
dative	der	Atlas
accusative	die	Atlas

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic أَطْلَس (ʔaṭlas).

Noun

Atlas m (strong, genitive Atlas or Atlasses, no plural)

1. atlas satin

Declension

Declension of Atlas [sg-only, masculine, strong]

	singular
	indef.	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Atlas
genitive	eines	des	Atlas, Atlasses
dative	einem	dem	Atlas, Atlasse1
accusative	einen	den	Atlas

¹Now rare, see notes.

Derived terms

• atlassen

Further reading

• “Atlas” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

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Latin

Etymology

From the name of the Ancient Greek mythological figure Ἄτλας (Átlas, “Bearer (of the Heavens)”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈaːt.laːs/, [ˈäːt̪ɫ̪äːs̠] or IPA^(key): /ˈat.laːs/, [ˈät̪ɫ̪äːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈat.las/, [ˈät̪läs]

Proper noun

Ā̆tlās m (genitive Ā̆tlantis); third declension

1. (geography) A mountain in the Atlas Mountain Range in the former Kingdom of Mauretania, said to support the heavens.
2. (Greek mythology) The Titan Atlas.
   • Ovid Metamorphoses with an English translation by Frank Justus Miller. In two volumes, I, books I–VIII, 1951, page 224–225 containing Ovidus' Metamorphoses IV, 644–645:

     "tempus, Atla, veniet, tua quo spoliabitur auro
     arbor, et hunc praedae titulum Iove natus habebit."

     "Atlas, the time will come when your tree will be spoiled of its gold, and he who gets the glory of this spoil will be Jove's son."

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	Ā̆tlās	Ā̆tlantēs
Genitive	Ā̆tlantis	Ā̆tlantum
Dative	Ā̆tlantī	Ā̆tlantibus
Accusative	Ā̆tlantem	Ā̆tlantēs
Ablative	Ā̆tlante	Ā̆tlantibus
Vocative	Ā̆tlā	Ā̆tlantēs

Derived terms

• Ā̆tlantes
• Ā̆tlantēus
• Ā̆tlantiacus
• Ā̆tlantiades
• Ā̆tlantias
• Ā̆tlanticus, ā̆tlanticus
• Ā̆tlantis
• Ā̆tlantius

Descendants

• Portuguese: Atlas
• Spanish: Atlas

References

• “Ā̆tlās”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Atlas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Ā̆tlās, from Ancient Greek Ἄτλας (Átlas).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈat.las/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -atlas
• Syllabification: At‧las
• Homophone: atlas

Proper noun

Atlas m pers

1. (Greek mythology) Atlas (titan who holds the sky)

Declension

Declension of Atlas

	singular
nominative	Atlas
genitive	Atlasa
dative	Atlasowi
accusative	Atlasa
instrumental	Atlasem
locative	Atlasie
vocative	Atlasie

Further reading

• Atlas in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Atlas in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Portuguese

Atlas

Etymology

From Latin Atlas, from Ancient Greek Ἄτλας (Átlas), meaning "The Bearer (of the Heavens)", from Ἄ (Á), copulative prefix, + τλῆναι (tlênai, “to thole, suffer, endure, bear”), from Proto-Indo-European *tele (“to support, lift, weigh”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈa.tlɐs/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈa.tlɐs/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈa.tlɐʃ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈa.tlas/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈa.tlɐʃ/

• Hyphenation: A‧tlas

Proper noun

Atlas m

1. (Greek mythology) Atlas (titan who holds the sky)

Proper noun

Atlas f

1. (astronomy) Atlas (a moon of Saturn)

Proper noun

Atlas m pl

1. Atlas Mountains (a mountain range in northwestern Africa)

Derived terms

• atlante
• atlas
• atlântico
• Oceano Atlântico

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin Atlās, from Ancient Greek Ἄτλας (Átlas).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈatlas/ [ˈa.t̪las]

Proper noun

Atlas m

1. (Greek mythology) Atlas (titan who holds the sky)

Derived terms

• atlas

Proper noun

Atlas m pl

1. Atlas Mountains (a mountain range in northwestern Africa)