Atlantis
English
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.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ətˈlæntəs/
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Proper noun
Atlantis
- 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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Derived terms
Translations
mythical country said to have sunk into the ocean
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Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /aːtˈlan.tis/, [äːt̪ˈɫ̪än̪t̪ɪs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /atˈlan.tis/, [ät̪ˈlän̪t̪is]
Proper noun
Ātlantis f (genitive Ātlantidis); third declension
- of or pertaining to Mount Atlas
- Atlantis, the island in the Atlantic
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | Ātlantis | Ātlantidēs |
Genitive | Ātlantidis | Ātlantidum |
Dative | Ātlantidī | Ātlantidibus |
Accusative | Ātlantidem | Ātlantidēs |
Ablative | Ātlantide | Ātlantidibus |
Vocative | Ātlantis | Ātlantidēs |
References
- “Atlantis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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