Tartary
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English
Alternative forms
- Tatary (archaic)
Etymology
From Old French Tartaire, from Medieval Latin Tartarus (“Tartar, Mongol”), from Old Turkic 𐱃𐱃𐰺, spelling influenced by Latin Tartarus (“Hell (in Greek mythology)”), from Ancient Greek Τάρταρος (Tártaros).
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)təɹi
Proper noun
Tartary
- (archaic) The Eurasian Steppe.
- Obsolete form of Tartarus.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 102:
- An huge great Dragon horrible in ſight,
Bred in the loathly lakes of Tartary
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Translations
historical term for the Eurasian steppes and Central Asia
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References
- “Tartary”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.