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

1. 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^[1]:

     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.

Derived terms

• Atlantean

Translations

mythical country said to have sunk into the ocean

• Albanian: Atlantida
• Arabic: أَطْلَانْطِس f (ʔaṭlānṭis)
• Asturian: Atlántida (ast)
• Belarusian: Атланты́да f (Atlantýda)
• Catalan: Atlàntida f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 阿特蘭蒂斯 / 阿特兰蒂斯 (zh) (Ātèlándìsī), 亞特蘭蒂斯 / 亚特兰蒂斯 (zh) (Yàtèlándìsī), 大西國 / 大西国 (zh) (Dàxīguó), 亞特蘭提斯 / 亚特兰提斯 (zh)

• Czech: Atlantida (cs) f
• Danish: Atlantis
• Dutch: Atlantis (nl)
• Esperanto: Atlantido
• Finnish: Atlantis (fi)
• French: Atlantide (fr) f
• German: Atlantis (de) n, Atlantis (de) f
• Greek: Ατλαντίδα (el) f (Atlantída)

  Ancient: Ἀτλαντίς f (Atlantís)

• Hebrew: אטלנטיס (atlantis)
• Hungarian: Atlantisz (hu)
• Interlingua: Atlantida
• Italian: Atlantide (it)
• Japanese: アトランティス (Atorantisu)
• Korean: 아틀란티스 (Ateullantiseu)
• Latin: Atlantis insula f, atlantis insula f, atlantis f
• Marathi: अट्लँटिस m (aṭlĕṇṭis)
• Mongolian: Атлантис (Atlantis)
• Persian: آتلانتیس (fa) (âtlântis)
• Polish: Atlantyda (pl) f
• Portuguese: Atlântida f
• Romanian: Atlantida f
• Russian: Атланти́да (ru) f (Atlantída)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Атланти́да f

  Roman: Atlantída (sh) f

• Spanish: Atlántida f
• Swedish: Atlantis n
• Ukrainian: Атланти́да f (Atlantýda)
• Welsh: Atlantis f

Anagrams

• antisalt, atlastin, natalist

German

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Atlantis n or f (plural Atlantis)

1. Atlantis

Related terms

• atlantisch
• Atlanter m, also Atlantier m

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /aːtˈlan.tis/, [äːt̪ˈɫ̪än̪t̪ɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /atˈlan.tis/, [ät̪ˈlän̪t̪is]

Proper noun

Ātlantis f (genitive Ātlantidis); third declension

1. of or pertaining to Mount Atlas
2. Atlantis, the island in the Atlantic

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	Ātlantis	Ātlantidēs
genitive	Ātlantidis	Ātlantidum
dative	Ātlantidī	Ātlantidibus
accusative	Ātlantidem	Ātlantidēs
ablative	Ātlantide	Ātlantidibus
vocative	Ātlantis	Ātlantidēs

Proper noun

Ātlantis

1. genitive singular of Ātlās

References

• “Atlantis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press