Atlantis

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English

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Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἀτλαντίς (Atlantís), from Ἄτλας (Átlas, Atlas), either from ἁ- (ha-, copulative prefix) + Proto-Indo-European *telh₂- (bear, undergo, endure) or of Pre-Greek origin.

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Proper noun

Atlantis

  1. A mythical country said to have sunk into the Atlantic Ocean.
    • 1880, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Dedication to G. W. G.”, in Ultima Thule:
      How far, since then, the ocean streams / Have swept us from that land of dreams, / That land of fiction and of truth, / The lost Atlantis of our youth!
    • 1918, Arthur Conan Doyle, The New Revelation:
      I might have drifted on for my whole life as a psychical Researcher, showing a sympathetic, but more or less dilettante attitude towards the whole subject, as if we were arguing about some impersonal thing such as the existence of Atlantis or the Baconian controversy.

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German

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Proper noun

Atlantis n or f (plural Atlantis)

  1. Atlantis

Latin

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Ātlantis f (genitive Ātlantidis); third declension

  1. of or pertaining to Mount Atlas
  2. Atlantis, the island in the Atlantic

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative Ātlantis Ātlantidēs
Genitive Ātlantidis Ātlantidum
Dative Ātlantidī Ātlantidibus
Accusative Ātlantidem Ātlantidēs
Ablative Ātlantide Ātlantidibus
Vocative Ātlantis Ātlantidēs

Proper noun

Ātlantis

  1. genitive singular of Ātlās

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