Atlas
English
/ˈætləs/
proper noun
Definitions
- (Greek god) 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 Hesperides, the Hyades, and the Pleiades; king of the legendary Atlantis.
- (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.
- (warfare) An intercontinental ballistic missile.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin Atlās derived from Ancient Greek Ἄτλας (Atlas).
Origin
Ancient Greek
Ἄτλας
Gloss
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Atlantean English
- Atlantian English
- Atlantis English
- Atlasic English
- Atlas Latin
- Atlās Latin
- Ātlantem Latin
- Ātlās Latin
- Atlas German
- atlante Spanish, Castilian
- Ἄτλας Ancient Greek
- *tele Proto-Indo-European
- *telh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- atlas Norwegian Bokmål
- atlas Portuguese
- atlas Norwegian Nynorsk
- atlas Irish
- أطلس Arabic
- جِبَال الأَطْلَس Arabic
- Άτλας Greek (modern)