atlas

English

English Wikipedia has an article on:

atlas

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈætləs/, (sometimes) /ˈætlɪs/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• (US) enPR: ătʹləs, IPA^(key): /ˈætləs/
• Rhymes: -ætləs
• Homophone: Atlas

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin Atlas, from the name of the Ancient Greek mythological figure Ἄτλας (Átlas, “Bearer (of the Heavens)”), from τλῆναι (tlênai, “to suffer”, “to endure”, “to bear”). The sense referring to books of maps comes from the Atlas of Mercator, which he named thus in honor of Atlas, who was supposed to be skillful in astronomy and the doctrine of the sphere. The sense referring to the vertebra reflects that the spine carries the globe of the cranium (the neck carries the head).

Noun

atlas (plural atlases or atlantes)

1. A bound collection of maps often including tables, illustrations or other text.
2. A bound collection of tables, illustrations etc. on any given subject.
3. (chiefly in anatomy, especially of the human body) A detailed visual conspectus of something of great and multi-faceted complexity, with its elements splayed so as to be presented in as discrete a manner as possible whilst retaining a realistic view of the whole.
   • 1904: Eugène Collin, An Anatomical Atlas of Vegetable Powders Designed as an Aid to the Microscopic Analysis of Powdered Foods and Drugs, main title (J. & A. Churchill)

     An Anatomical Atlas of Vegetable Powders Designed as an Aid to the Microscopic Analysis of Powdered Foods and Drugs

   • 1991, Alan C. F. Colchester, David J. Hawkes, editors, Information Processing in Medical Imaging, Springer, →ISBN, page 154:

     In addition to classical radiology systems like angiography, CT scanner or MRI have greatly contributed to the improvement of the patient anatomy investigation. Each examination modality still carries its own information and the need to make a synthesis between them is obvious but still makes different problems hard to solve. There is no unique imaging facility which can bring out the whole set of known anatomical structures, brought together in a neuro-anatomical atlas.

   • 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 55 (Totem Books, Icon Books; →ISBN

     Our perception of the body as the natural “space of the origin and distribution of disease”, a space determined by the 'anatomical atlas', is merely one of the various ways in which medicine has formed its “knowledge”.

   • 2003, Isabelle E. Magnin, Functional Imaging and Modeling of the Heart, Springer, →ISBN, page 19:

     Finally, Subsol et al. [6] reported on a method for automatically constructing 3D morphometric anatomical atlantes which is based on the extraction of line and point features and their subsequent non-rigid registration.

4. (differential geometry, topology) A family of coordinate charts that cover a manifold.
6. (anatomy) The uppermost vertebra of the cervical spine in the neck in humans and some other animals.

   Synonyms: atlanto-, atlo-

   • 1734, William Stukeley, Of the Gout, part II, page 58:

     There are of these glands upon the first vertebra of the neck of the atlas; on which the head turns […]

   • 2020, Tim Ecott, The Land of Maybe, Short Books, published 2021, page 174:

     Ribs and spines show through the thin layer of meat left on the carcase, and, where the head meets the body, the crucial first vertebra – the atlas – is exposed.

7. One who supports a heavy burden; mainstay.
8. (architecture) A figure of a man used as a column.

   Synonym: telamon

   Coordinate term: caryatid

9. (paper) A sheet of paper measuring 26 inches by 34 inches.

Translations

Etymology 2

Arabic أَطْلَس (ʔaṭlas)

Noun

atlas (countable and uncountable, plural atlases or atlasses)

1. (historical) A rich satin fabric.
   • 1887, Sir William Hedges, Sir Henry Yule, The Diary of William Hedges, Esq.:

     I saw ye Taffaties and Atlasses in ye warehouse, and gave directions concerning their severall colours and stripes, ordering Mr. Charnock to use his best endeavours to encrease their quantity; […]

   • 2016, Pius Malekandathil, The Indian Ocean in the Making of Early Modern India, page 53:

     Surat was an important port on the west coast of India from where atlases were exported on a large scale […]

Translations

Anagrams

• AASLT, Aalst, Salta, salat, talas

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: at‧las

Etymology 1

From English atlas, from the name of the Ancient Greek mythological figure Ἄτλας (Átlas, “Bearer (of the Heavens)”), from τλῆναι (tlênai, “to suffer”, “to endure”, “to bear”).

Noun

atlas

1. an atlas; a bound collection of maps often including tables, illustrations or other text

Etymology 2

From English Atlas moth.

Noun

atlas

1. the Atlas moth (Attacus atlas)

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

atlas m inan

1. atlas (bound collection of maps)

Declension

Dutch

Etymology

Apparently coined in Latin in this sense by Gerardus Mercator from the name of the mythological giant Atlas. Borrowed from Latin Atlas, from Ancient Greek Ἄτλας (Átlas).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑt.lɑs/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: at‧las

Noun

atlas m (plural atlassen)

1. atlas (bound or digital collection of maps)

   Synonym: kaartenboek

2. (anatomy) atlas (top vertebra)

Descendants

• → Indonesian: atlas
• → Papiamentu: atlas

Finnish

Etymology

From Latin Atlas, from Ancient Greek Ἄτλας (Átlas).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑtlɑs/,
• Rhymes: -ɑtlɑs
• Syllabification^(key): at‧las

Noun

atlas

1. atlas (collection of maps)
2. (anatomy) atlas (vertebra)

Declension

Synonyms

• (collection of maps): kartasto
• (vertebra): kannattajanikama, atlasnikama

Derived terms

Further reading

• “atlas”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

Anagrams

• lasta, salat, talas

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin atlas.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.tlas/, /a.tlɑs/

• Audio

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• Audio (Switzerland)

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Noun

atlas m (plural atlas)

1. atlas (collection of maps)
2. (anatomy) atlas

Descendants

• → Romanian: atlas
• → Turkish: atlas

Further reading

• “atlas”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Indonesian

Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:

atlas

Wikipedia ^id

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: at‧las

Etymology 1

From Dutch atlas, from Latin Atlas, from the name of the Ancient Greek mythological figure Ἄτλας (Átlas, “Bearer (of the Heavens)”), from τλῆναι (tlênai, “to suffer”, “to endure”, “to bear”).

Noun

atlas (first-person possessive atlasku, second-person possessive atlasmu, third-person possessive atlasnya)

1. atlas:
   1. a bound collection of maps often including tables, illustrations or other text.
   2. (anatomy) the uppermost vertebra of the neck.

Hyponyms

Etymology 2

From Arabic أَطْلَس (ʔaṭlas).

Noun

atlas (first-person possessive atlasku, second-person possessive atlasmu, third-person possessive atlasnya)

1. a rich satin fabric.

   Synonyms: antelas, satin

References

Further reading

• “atlas” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Irish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἄτλας (Átlas).

Noun

atlas m (genitive singular atlais, nominative plural atlais)

1. atlas (bound collection of maps; uppermost vertebra of the neck)

Declension

Mutation

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “atlas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “atlas”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

Atlas (oppslagsverk)

Wikipedia ^no

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἄτλας (Átlas), a Titan in Greek mythology; first used in this sense by the cartographer Mercator.

Noun

atlas n (definite singular atlaset, indefinite plural atlas or atlaser, definite plural atlasa or atlasene)

1. an atlas (book of maps)

Derived terms

• veiatlas

References

• “atlas” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:

atlas

Wikipedia ⁿⁿ

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἄτλας (Átlas).

Noun

atlas n (definite singular atlaset, indefinite plural atlas, definite plural atlasa)

1. an atlas (book of maps)

References

• “atlas” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

Atlas

Wikipedia ^pl

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Ἄτλας (Átlas). Doublet of atlant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈat.las/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -atlas
• Syllabification: at‧las
• Homophone: Atlas

Noun

atlas m inan (diminutive atlasik)

1. atlas (bound collection of maps)
2. atlas (bound collection of maps)
3. (architecture) atlas (figure of a man used as a column)

   Synonyms: atlant, telamon

4. (anatomy) atlas (the uppermost vertebra of the neck)

   Synonym: dźwigacz

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• atlas in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• atlas in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἄτλας (Átlas, “Atlas”).

Pronunciation

• Homophone: Atlas
• Hyphenation: a‧tlas

Noun

atlas m (invariable)

1. atlas (collection of maps)

   Synonym: mapoteca

2. atlas (topmost vertebra)

Hypernyms

• (topmost vertebra): vértebra, osso

Meronyms

• (collection of maps): mapa, carta

Holonyms

• (topmost vertebra): coluna, espinha, espinhaço, esqueleto

Coordinate terms

• (topmost vertebra): áxis

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French atlas.

Noun

atlas n (plural atlase)

1. atlas

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

àtlas m (Cyrillic spelling а̀тлас)

1. atlas

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Atlas, a titan in Greek mythology.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈatlas/
• Rhymes: -atlas
• Syllabification: a‧tlas

Noun

atlas m (plural atlas)

1. (cartography) atlas (a bound collection of maps often including tables, illustrations or other text)
2. (anatomy) atlas (the uppermost vertebra of the neck)

See also

• Atlas (cartografía) on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es
• Atlas (hueso) on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es

Further reading

• “atlas”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014