Atlas

See also: ATLAS, atlas, and atłas

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈætləs/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ætləs
• 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 Pre-Greek 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 the Hesperides, the Hyades, and the Pleiades; king of the legendary Atlantis.
2. A placename:
   1. A place in the United States:
      1. An unincorporated community in Pike County, Illinois.
      2. A township in Genesee County, Michigan.
      3. An unincorporated community in Lamar County, Texas.
      4. An unincorporated community in Upshur County, West Virginia.
      5. An unincorporated community in Laketown, Polk County, Wisconsin.
   2. (astronomy) A moon of Saturn.
   3. (astronomy) A crater in the last quadrant of the moon.
   4. (astronomy) A triple star system in the Pleiades open cluster (M45) also known as 27 Tauri.
3. (countable) A surname.
4. (astronautics, military, US) An SM-65, an early ICBM, soon developed into a long-lived orbital launch vehicle series.

Derived terms

• Atlantean
• Atlas beetle
• Atlas cedar
• Atlas complex
• Atlas-like
• 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)

• Hungarian: Atlasz (hu)
• Irish: Atlás m
• Italian: Atlante (it) 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 (Tǔwèishíwǔ)

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

a star in the Pleiades

• Hindi: वर्षयंती तारा m (varṣayantī tārā)
• Maori: Tupuārangi

intercontinental ballistic missile

• Finnish: Atlas (fi)
• 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.

Etymology 2

Proper noun

Atlas (plural Atlases)

1. A subgroup of the Berber languages.

Related terms

• Central Atlas Tamazight

Anagrams

• AASLT, Aalst, Salta, salat, talas

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

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /at.las/

• 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

Derived terms

• cèdre de l'Atlas

Related terms

• atlante

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈatlas/

• Audio (Berlin):

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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, translated 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, A. Lücke, E. Rose, editors, Deutsche Zeitschrift für Chirurgie, volume 35, 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

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈaːt.ɫaːs], [ˈat.ɫaːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈat̪.las]

Proper noun

Ā̆tlās m (genitive Ā̆tlantis); third declension

1. a mountain in the Atlas Mountain Range in the former Kingdom of Mauretania, said to support the heavens
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.246–251:

     [...] iamque volāns apicem et latera ardua cernit / Ātlantis dūrī, caelum quī vertice fulcit; / Ātlantis, cīnctum adsiduē cui nūbibus ātrīs / pīniferum caput et ventō pulsātur et imbrī, / nix umerōs īnfūsa tegit; tum flūmina mentō / praecipitant senis, et glaciē riget horrida barba.

     [...] And now as he flies, [Mercury] sees the peak and steep sides of Atlas the enduring, whose top props up the sky; of Atlas, whose pine-clad head is ever girt with dark clouds, and battered by wind and rain, [and] his shoulders laden with fallen snow; [then,] further on, rivers pour down his aged chin, and his bristly beard is stiff with ice.
     (This personification blends aspects of both the Titan and the mountain; see also: epanalepsis.)

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.

	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.

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin Ā̆tlās.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.tlas/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -atlas
• Syllabification: A‧tlas
• 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 Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Atlas in PWN's encyclopedia

Portuguese

Atlas

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Atlas, from Ancient Greek Ἄτλας (Átlas, literally “The Bearer (of the Heavens)”), from Ἄ (Á, copulative prefix) + τλῆναι (tlênai, “to suffer, to endure, to bear”), from Proto-Indo-European *telh₂- (“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/

• Homophone: atlas
• 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 (plural only)

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

Derived terms

• atlante
• atlas
• atlântico
• Oceano Atlântico

Spanish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈatlas/ [ˈa.t̪las]
• Rhymes: -atlas
• Syllabification: A‧tlas

Proper noun

Atlas m

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

Derived terms

• atlas
• cedro del Atlas

Proper noun

Atlas m pl (plural only)

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

Turkish

Proper noun

Atlas

1. (Greek mythology) Atlas