Atlas

== English == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈætləs/ 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) (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. A placename: A place in the United States: An unincorporated community in Pike County, Illinois. A township in Genesee County, Michigan. An unincorporated community in Lamar County, Texas. An unincorporated community in Upshur County, West Virginia. An unincorporated community in Laketown, Polk County, Wisconsin. (astronomy) A moon of Saturn. (astronomy) A crater in the last quadrant of the moon. (astronomy) A triple star system in the Pleiades open cluster (M45) also known as 27 Tauri. (countable) A surname. (astronautics, military, US) An SM-65, an early ICBM, soon developed into a long-lived orbital launch vehicle series. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ==== Noun ==== Atlas (plural Atlases) (astronautics, military, US) A particular model or individual specimen of the Atlas missile and launch vehicle line. === Etymology 2 === From French Atlas. From the Ancient Greek Ἄτλας (Átlas), stemming from the belief that the mountain range is actually the body of the Titan Atlas after being turned to stone. The Berber languages exist in the region of the Atlas Mountains. ==== Proper noun ==== Atlas (plural Atlases) A subgroup of the Berber languages. Ellipsis of Atlas Mountains ===== Related terms ===== === Etymology 3 === Alteration of ATLAS ==== Proper noun ==== Atlas (astronomy) Alternative form of ATLAS === Anagrams === AASLT, Aalst, Salta, salat, talas == Dutch == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin Atlas, from Ancient Greek Ἄτλας (Átlas). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈɑt.lɑs/ Hyphenation: At‧las === Proper noun === Atlas m (Greek mythology) Atlas (mythological giant) (uncommon) Atlas Mountains Synonym: Atlasgebergte (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/ === Proper noun === 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 ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== atlante == German == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈatlas/ === 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) (cartography or reference work) atlas (bound collection of maps) atlas (bound collection of tables, illustrations on any subject) (uncommon) atlas (figure of a man used as a column) Synonym: Atlant ===== Declension ===== ==== Noun ==== Atlas m (strong, genitive Atlas or Atlasses or Atlanten, plural Atlasse) (medicine) atlas (uppermost vertebra of the neck) ===== Declension ===== ==== Proper noun ==== 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) ===== Declension ===== ==== Proper noun ==== 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) ===== Declension ===== ==== Proper noun ==== 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 ===== Declension ===== ==== Proper noun ==== Atlas m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Atlas' or (with an article) Atlas, feminine genitive Atlas, plural Atlas or Atlasens) a surname ===== Declension ===== ==== Proper noun ==== die Atlas f (proper noun, usually definite, definite genitive der Atlas) Atlas (family of US intercontinental ballistic missiles) ===== Declension ===== === Etymology 2 === Borrowed from Arabic أَطْلَس (ʔaṭlas). ==== Noun ==== Atlas m (strong, genitive Atlas or Atlasses, no plural) atlas satin ===== Declension ===== ===== Derived terms ===== atlassen === Further reading === “Atlas”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[1] (in German) == 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): [ˈat.las] === Proper noun === Ā̆tlās m (genitive Ā̆tlantis); third declension 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." ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== 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/ Rhymes: -atlas Syllabification: A‧tlas Homophone: atlas === Proper noun === Atlas m pers (Greek mythology) Atlas (titan who holds the sky) ==== Declension ==== === Further reading === “Atlas”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[2] (in Polish) Atlas in PWN's encyclopedia == Portuguese == === 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 === Homophone: atlas Hyphenation: A‧tlas === Proper noun === Atlas m (Greek mythology) Atlas (titan who holds the sky) === Proper noun === Atlas f (astronomy) Atlas (a moon of Saturn) === Proper noun === Atlas m pl (plural only) 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 (Greek mythology) Atlas (titan who holds the sky) ==== Derived terms ==== === Proper noun === Atlas m pl (plural only) Atlas Mountains (a mountain range in northwestern Africa, occupying portions of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia) == Turkish == === Proper noun === Atlas (Greek mythology) Atlas