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English
Pronunciation
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
intercontinental ballistic missile
Noun
Atlas (plural Atlases )
( astronautics , military , US ) A particular model or individual specimen of the Atlas missile and launch vehicle line.
Etymology 2
Proper noun
Atlas (plural Atlases )
A subgroup of the Berber languages.
Anagrams
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
French
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin Atlas , from Ancient Greek Ἄτλας ( Átlas ) .
Pronunciation
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
German
Pronunciation
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 )
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. (please add an English translation of this quotation)
atlas ( bound collection of tables, illustrations on any subject )
2008 , Frank H. Netter, translated 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.
( 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 )
1893 , A. Lücke, E. Rose, editors, 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:
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
Declension of Atlas
singular
def.
noun
nominative
die
Atlas
genitive
der
Atlas
dative
der
Atlas
accusative
die
Atlas
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Arabic أَطْلَس ( ʔaṭlas ) .
Noun
Atlas m (strong , genitive Atlas or Atlasses , no plural )
atlas satin
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
“Atlas ” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
Latin
Etymology
From the name of the Ancient Greek mythological figure Ἄτλας ( Átlas , “ Bearer (of the Heavens) ” ) .
Pronunciation
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
29 BCE – 19 BCE ,
Virgil ,
Aeneid 4.246–251 :
iamque volāns apicem et latera ardua cernit / Ātlantis dūrī, caelum quī vertice fulcit; / Ātlantis , cīnctum adsiduē cui nūbibus ātrīs / pīniferum caput et ventō pulsātur et imbrī, / nix umerōs īnfūsa tegit; tum flūmina mentō / praecipitant senis, et glaciē riget horrida barba. And now as he flies, sees the peak and steep sides of Atlas the enduring, whose top props up the sky; of Atlas , whose pine-clad head is ever girt with dark clouds, and battered by wind and rain, his shoulders laden with fallen snow; further on, rivers pour down his aged chin, and his bristly beard is stiff with ice. (This personification blends aspects of both the Titan and the mountain; see also: epanalepsis .)
( 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
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
Proper noun
Atlas m pers
( Greek mythology ) Atlas ( titan who holds the sky )
Declension
Further reading
Atlas in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Atlas in PWN's encyclopedia
Portuguese
Atlas
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
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
Atlas Mountains (a mountain range in northwestern Africa )
Derived terms
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin Atlās , from Ancient Greek Ἄτλας ( Átlas ) .
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Atlas m
( Greek mythology ) Atlas ( titan who holds the sky )
Derived terms
Proper noun
Atlas m pl
Atlas Mountains (a mountain range in northwestern Africa )
Turkish
Proper noun
Atlas
( Greek mythology ) Atlas