Atlas
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin Ātlās, from Ancient Greek Ἄτλας (Átlas).
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Atlas
- (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.
- (astronomy) A moon of Saturn.
- (astronomy) A crater in the first quadrant of the moon.
- (astronomy) A triple star system in the Pleiades open cluster (M45) also known as 27 Tauri.
- (warfare, US) An intercontinental ballistic missile.
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin Atlas, from Ancient Greek Ἄτλας (Átlas).
Pronunciation[edit]
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Atlas m
- (Greek mythology) Atlas (son of Iapetus and Clymene, leader of the Titans ordered by Zeus to support the sky on his shoulders)
- (astronomy) Atlas (moon of Saturn)
- (astronomy) Atlas (star in the Pleiades)
- (astronomy) Atlas (crater in the first quadrant of the moon)
- Atlas Mountains
German[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Latin Atlās or from Ancient Greek Ἄτλας (Átlas), from the name of the mythological figure Ἄτλας (Átlas, “Bearer (of the Heavens)”).
Noun[edit]
Atlas m (genitive Atlas or Atlasses or Atlanten, plural Atlanten or Atlasse)
- (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.
- 1902, Geologisches Centralblatt, volume 2, page 17:
- 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.
- Jeder von ihnen hat einen Abschnitt des Atlanten gegengelesen, korrigiert und auf den neuesten Stand gebracht.
- 2008, Frank H. Netter, translation by Roland Mühlbauer, Atlas der Anatomie, fourth edition, →ISBN, preface:
- (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: […]
- Halswirbel zeigt sich an der rechten unteren Gelenkfläche des Atlas eine leicht bogenförmige, usurirte [sic] Linie im Gelenkknorpel: […]
- 1893, Deutsche Zeitschrift für Chirurgie, volume 35, edited by A. Lücke and E. Rose, page 559:
- (uncommon) atlas (figure of a man used as a column)
Synonyms[edit]
- (figure of man used as column): Atlant
Proper noun[edit]
Atlas
- (Greek mythology) Atlas (son of Iapetus and Clymene, leader of the Titans ordered by Zeus to support the sky on his shoulders)
- (geography) the Atlas Mountains (mountain range in northwest Africa)
- (astronomy) Atlas (moon of Saturn)
- (astronomy) Atlas (star in the Pleiades)
- (astronomy) Atlas (crater in the first quadrant of the moon)
- (warfare, U.S.) Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile
Etymology 2[edit]
From Arabic.
Noun[edit]
Atlas m (genitive Atlas or Atlasses, no plural)
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From the name of the Ancient Greek mythological figure Ἄτλας (Átlas, “Bearer (of the Heavens)”).
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Proper noun[edit]
Ātlās m (genitive Ātlantis); third declension
- (geography) A mountain in the Atlas Mountain Range in the former Kingdom of Mauretania, said to support the heavens.
- (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."
- "tempus, Atla, veniet, tua quo spoliabitur auro
- 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:
Inflection[edit]
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | Ātlās | Ātlantēs |
Genitive | Ātlantis | Ātlantum |
Dative | Ātlantī | Ātlantibus |
Accusative | Ātlantem | Ātlantēs |
Ablative | Ātlante | Ātlantibus |
Vocative | Ātlā | Ātlantēs |
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References[edit]
- 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
Portuguese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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”).
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Atlas m
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Atlas f
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Atlas m pl
- Atlas Mountains (a mountain range in northwestern Africa)
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Spanish[edit]
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Atlas m
- Atlas (god)
- Atlas Mountains
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