Atlas

See also: atlas

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈætləs/

Proper noun

Atlas

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. (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.
5. (warfare, US) An intercontinental ballistic missile.

Derived terms

• Atlantean

Related terms

• Atlas Mountains

Translations

Greek mythology

• Ancient Greek: Ἄτλας (Átlas)
• Arabic: أَطْلَس‎ m (ʾaṭlas)
• Catalan: Atles (ca) m
• Danish: Atlas
• Dutch: Atlas (nl) m
• Finnish: Atlas (fi)
• French: Atlas (fr)
• Galician: Atlas m
• German: Atlas (de) m

• Greek: Άτλας (el) m (Átlas)

  Ancient: Ἄτλας m (Átlas)

• Hungarian: Atlasz (hu)
• Irish: Atlás m
• Persian: اطلس‎ (fa) (atlas)
• Portuguese: Atlas (pt) m
• Russian: А́тлас (ru) m (Átlas), Атла́нт (ru) m (Atlánt)
• Serbo-Croatian: Atlas m
• 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)

• 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

• Maori: Tupuārangi

intercontinental ballistic missile

• Finnish: Atlas (fi)

• German: Atlas (de) m

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

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.tlas/

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

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German

Etymology 1

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

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.

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. (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: […]

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

Declension

Declension of Atlas

	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

Declension of Atlas

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

¹Now uncommon, see notes

Declension of Atlas

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

Synonyms

• (figure of man used as column): Atlant

Proper noun

Atlas m (genitive Atlas')

1. (Greek mythology) Atlas (son of Iapetus and Clymene, leader of the Titans ordered by Zeus to support the sky on his shoulders)
2. (geography) the Atlas Mountains (a mountain range in northwestern Africa)
3. (astronomy) Atlas (moon of Saturn)
4. (astronomy) Atlas (star in the Pleiades)
5. (astronomy) Atlas (crater in the first quadrant of the moon)
6. a (US) Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic أَطْلَس‎ (ʾaṭlas).

Noun

Atlas m (genitive Atlas or Atlasses, no plural)

1. atlas satin

Declension

Declension of Atlas (uncountable)

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

Declension of Atlas (uncountable)

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

¹Now uncommon, see notes

Derived terms

• atlassen

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Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈat.laːs/, [ˈat̪.ɫ̪aːs]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈat.las/, [ˈat̪.las]

Proper noun

Atlās m (genitive Atlantis); 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	Atlās	Atlantēs
Genitive	Atlantis	Atlantum
Dative	Atlantī	Atlantibus
Accusative	Atlantem	Atlantēs
Ablative	Atlante	Atlantibus
Vocative	Atlā	Atlantēs

Derived terms

• Atlantes
• Atlantēus
• Atlantiacus
• Atlantiades
• Atlantias
• Atlanticus
• Atlantis
• Atlantius

Descendants

• Portuguese: Atlas
• Spanish: Atlas

References

• Atlas 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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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

• (Portugal, Carioca) IPA^(key): /ˈa.tlɐʃ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈa.tlɐs/

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 Atlas, from Ancient Greek Ἄτλας (Átlas).

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)