Tartary
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- Tatary (archaic)
Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]- Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)təɹi
Proper noun
[edit]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
Derived terms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]historical term for the Eurasian steppes and Central Asia
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References
[edit]- “Tartary”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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