Atlas
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
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 nounEdit
Atlas (countable and uncountable, plural Atlases)
- (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.
- A placename
- (countable) A surname.
- (astronautics, military, US) The SM-65, an early ICBM, soon developed into a long-lived orbital launch vehicle series.
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NounEdit
Atlas (plural Atlases)
- (astronautics, military, US) A particular model or individual specimen of the Atlas missile and launch vehicle line.
Etymology 2Edit
Proper nounEdit
Atlas (plural Atlases)
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DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin Atlas, from Ancient Greek Ἄτλας (Átlas).
PronunciationEdit
Proper nounEdit
Atlas m
- (Greek mythology) Atlas (mythological giant)
- (uncommon) Atlas Mountains
- Synonym: Atlasgebergte
- (astronomy) Atlas (moon of Saturn)
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FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Learned borrowing from Latin Atlas, from Ancient Greek Ἄτλας (Átlas).
PronunciationEdit
Proper nounEdit
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
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GermanEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Borrowed from Latin Atlās or from Ancient Greek Ἄτλας (Átlas), from the name of the mythological figure Ἄτλας (Átlas, “Bearer (of the Heavens)”).
NounEdit
Atlas m (strong, genitive Atlas or Atlasses or Atlanten, plural Atlanten)
- (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.
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- 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.
- 2008, Frank H. Netter, translation by Roland Mühlbauer, Atlas der Anatomie, fourth edition, →ISBN, preface:
- (uncommon) atlas (figure of a man used as a column)
- Synonym: Atlant
DeclensionEdit
NounEdit
Atlas m (strong, genitive Atlas or Atlasses or Atlanten, plural Atlasse)
- (medicine) atlas (uppermost vertebra of the neck)
- 1893, A. Lücke; E. Rose, editor, 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: […]
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Proper nounEdit
der Atlas m (proper noun, strong, usually definite, definite genitive des Atlas or des Atlasses or des Atlanten)
- the Atlas Mountains (a mountain range in northwestern Africa)
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Proper nounEdit
Atlas m (proper noun, strong, genitive Atlas' or (with an article) Atlas)
- (astronomy) Atlas (moon of Saturn)
- (astronomy) Atlas (star in the Pleiades)
- (astronomy) Atlas (crater in the first quadrant of the moon)
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Proper nounEdit
Atlas m (proper noun, strong, genitive Atlas', plural Atlasse)
- (Greek mythology) Atlas (son of Iapetus and Clymene, leader of the Titans ordered by Zeus to support the sky on his shoulders)
- an unknown-gender given name
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Proper nounEdit
Atlas m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Atlas' or (with an article) Atlas, feminine genitive Atlas, plural Atlas or Atlasens)
- a surname
DeclensionEdit
singular | plural | |||||||
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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 nounEdit
die Atlas f (proper noun, usually definite, definite genitive der Atlas)
- Atlas (family of US intercontinental ballistic missiles)
DeclensionEdit
Etymology 2Edit
Borrowed from Arabic أَطْلَس (ʔaṭlas).
NounEdit
Atlas m (strong, genitive Atlas or Atlasses, no plural)
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Further readingEdit
- “Atlas” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
From the name of the Ancient Greek mythological figure Ἄτλας (Átlas, “Bearer (of the Heavens)”).
PronunciationEdit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈaːt.laːs/, [ˈäːt̪ɫ̪äːs̠] or IPA(key): /ˈat.laːs/, [ˈät̪ɫ̪äːs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈat.las/, [ˈät̪läs]
Proper nounEdit
Ā̆tlās m (genitive Ā̆tlantis); 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:
DeclensionEdit
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | Ā̆tlās | Ā̆tlantēs |
Genitive | Ā̆tlantis | Ā̆tlantum |
Dative | Ā̆tlantī | Ā̆tlantibus |
Accusative | Ā̆tlantem | Ā̆tlantēs |
Ablative | Ā̆tlante | Ā̆tlantibus |
Vocative | Ā̆tlā | Ā̆tlantēs |
Derived termsEdit
- Ā̆tlantes
- Ā̆tlantēus
- Ā̆tlantiacus
- Ā̆tlantiades
- Ā̆tlantias
- Ā̆tlanticus, ā̆tlanticus
- Ā̆tlantis
- Ā̆tlantius
DescendantsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “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
PolishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin Ā̆tlās, from Ancient Greek Ἄτλας (Átlas).
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Proper nounEdit
Atlas m pers
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PortugueseEdit
EtymologyEdit
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”).
PronunciationEdit
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Atlas m
Proper nounEdit
Atlas f
Proper nounEdit
Atlas m pl
- Atlas Mountains (a mountain range in northwestern Africa)
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SpanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin Atlās, from Ancient Greek Ἄτλας (Átlas).
PronunciationEdit
Proper nounEdit
Atlas m
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Proper nounEdit
Atlas m pl
- Atlas Mountains (a mountain range in northwestern Africa)
TurkishEdit
Proper nounEdit
Atlas