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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Perhaps from ἁ- (ha-, copulative prefix) + Proto-Indo-European *telh₂-, the root of ἔτλην (étlēn, “to suffer, to endure”). Beekes suggests it is a Pre-Greek word.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /á.tlaːs/ → /ˈa.tlas/ → /ˈa.tlas/
Proper noun
Ἄτλᾱς • (Átlās) m (genitive Ἄτλαντος); third declension
- (Greek mythology) Atlas
- Atlas Mountains
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References
- “Ἄτλας”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Ἄτλας”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “Ἄτλας”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- Ἄτλας in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- “Ἄτλας”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,003
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 163