tartar
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) enPR: tärʹ-tər, IPA(key): /ˈtɑɹ.tɚ/
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: tärʹ-tər, IPA(key): /ˈtɑː.tə/
Audio (UK): (file) - Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: tar‧tar
- Homophone: tarter
Etymology 1
[edit]From Old French tartre, from Medieval Latin tartarum, from Byzantine Greek τάρταρον (tártaron), said to be from Arabic دُرْدِيّ (durdiyy), though it is already found in Pelagonius’s Ars veterinaria 46 in the adjective tartarālis, if the reading is correct.
Noun
[edit]tartar (countable and uncountable, plural tartars)
- A red compound deposited during wine making; mostly potassium hydrogen tartrate — a source of cream of tartar.
- A hard yellow deposit on the teeth, formed from dental plaque.
Derived terms
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Etymology 2
[edit]From figurative use of Tartar.
Noun
[edit]tartar (plural tartars)
- (dated) A fearsome or angrily violent person.
- 1929, Dashiell Hammett, chapter 3, in The Dain Curse[1], New York: Vintage, published 1972, page 28:
- Mrs. Begg said she liked Mrs. Dain, who was a sensible woman and a first-rate housewife, but that Gabrielle was a tartar.
Derived terms
[edit]Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]tartar (not comparable)
- tartare (chopped fine and served raw)
- tartar-pihvi
- steak tartare
- tartar-pihvi
Declension
[edit]Not inflected; used only as modifier.
Derived terms
[edit]Noun
[edit]tartar
- A dish prepared with finely chopped, raw ingredients; in English the names of these dishes are formed with the adjective "tartare".
- Alkupalaksi tarjottiin lohitartaria.
- A salmon tartare was served as appetizer.
Declension
[edit]Inflection of tartar (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | tartar | tartarit | |
genitive | tartarin | tartarien | |
partitive | tartaria | tartareja | |
illative | tartariin | tartareihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | tartar | tartarit | |
accusative | nom. | tartar | tartarit |
gen. | tartarin | ||
genitive | tartarin | tartarien | |
partitive | tartaria | tartareja | |
inessive | tartarissa | tartareissa | |
elative | tartarista | tartareista | |
illative | tartariin | tartareihin | |
adessive | tartarilla | tartareilla | |
ablative | tartarilta | tartareilta | |
allative | tartarille | tartareille | |
essive | tartarina | tartareina | |
translative | tartariksi | tartareiksi | |
abessive | tartaritta | tartareitta | |
instructive | — | tartarein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Anagrams
[edit]Italian
[edit]Noun
[edit]tartar f (invariable)
- Alternative form of tartare
Middle French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French Tartare.
Adjective
[edit]tartar m (feminine singular tartare, masculine plural tartars, feminine plural tartares)
- Tartar (of or relating to any of several Turkic groups)
Descendants
[edit]- French: tartare
References
[edit]- tartare on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)
Old Irish
[edit]Verb
[edit]·tartar
Mutation
[edit]Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
·tartar | ·thartar | ·tartar pronounced with /-d(ʲ)-/ |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic тарътаръ (tarŭtarŭ), from Ancient Greek Τάρταρος (Tártaros). Doublet of Tartarus.
Noun
[edit]tartar n (plural tartaruri)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) tartar | tartarul | (niște) tartaruri | tartarurile |
genitive/dative | (unui) tartar | tartarului | (unor) tartaruri | tartarurilor |
vocative | tartarule | tartarurilor |
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French (bifteck) tartare.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]tartar m (plural tartares)
Further reading
[edit]- “tartar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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- Rhymes:English/ɑː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)
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- Rhymes:Finnish/ɑrtɑr
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