English

Proper noun

Atlas

1. (Greek mythology) 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.
2. (astronomy) A moon of Saturn.
3. (astronomy) A crater in the first quadrant of the moon.
4. (astronomy) A triple star system in the Pleiades open cluster (M45) also known as 27 Tauri.
5. (warfare, US) Intercontinental ballistic missile.

Derived terms

• Atlantean

Related terms

• Atlas Mountains

Translations

Anagrams

• AASLT
• salat

French

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Atlas m

1. (Greek mythology) Atlas (son of Iapetus and Clymene, leader of the Titans ordered by Zeus to support the sky on his shoulders)
2. (astronomy) Atlas (moon of Saturn)
3. (astronomy) Atlas (star in the Pleiades)
4. (astronomy) Atlas (crater in the first quadrant of the moon)
5. Atlas Mountains

German

Etymology 1

From the name of the Ancient Greek mythological figure Ἄτλας ‎(Átlas, “Bearer (of the Heavens)”).

Noun

Atlas m ‎(genitive Atlas or Atlasses or Atlanten, plural Atlanten or Atlasse)

1. (cartography or reference work) atlas (bound collection of maps)
   • 1902, Geologisches Centralblatt, volume 2, page 17:

     In diesem System der Arbeitstheilung, sowie in der ungenügenden topographischen Grundlage 1 : 50 000 liegt auch die Schwäche des Atlasses, der gleichwohl für jene Zeit ein hervorragendes Werk darstellte.

2. atlas (bound collection of tables, illustrations on any subject)
   • 2008, Frank H. Netter, translation by Roland Mühlbauer, Atlas der Anatomie, fourth edition, ISBN 978-3-437-41602-6, preface:

     Jeder von ihnen hat einen Abschnitt des Atlanten gegengelesen, korrigiert und auf den neuesten Stand gebracht.

     Each one of them checked, corrected, and brought a chapter of the atlas up to date.

3. (medicine) atlas (uppermost vertebra of the neck)
   • 1893, Deutsche Zeitschrift für Chirurgie, volume 35, edited by A. Lücke and E. Rose, page 559:

     Halswirbel zeigt sich an der rechten unteren Gelenkfläche des Atlas eine leicht bogenförmige, usurirte [sic] Linie im Gelenkknorpel: […]

     The cervical vertebra manifests on the right anterior articular surface of the atlas a slightly arcuate, abraded line in the articular cartilage: […]

4. (uncommon) atlas (figure of a man used as a column)

Synonyms

• (figure of man used as column): Atlant

Derived terms

• atlassen

Proper noun

Atlas

1. (Greek mythology) Atlas (son of Iapetus and Clymene, leader of the Titans ordered by Zeus to support the sky on his shoulders)
2. (astronomy) Atlas (moon of Saturn)
3. (astronomy) Atlas (star in the Pleiades)
4. (astronomy) Atlas (crater in the first quadrant of the moon)
5. (warfare, U.S.) Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile

Etymology 2

From Arabic.

Noun

Atlas m ‎(genitive Atlas or Atlasses, no plural)

1. atlas satin

Etymology 3

From Berber.

Proper noun

Atlas

1. (geography) the Atlas Mountains (mountain range in northwest Africa)

Latin

Etymology

From the name of the Ancient Greek mythological figure Ἄτλας ‎(Átlas, “Bearer (of the Heavens)”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈaːt.laːs/

Proper noun

Ātlās m ‎(genitive Ātlantis); third declension

1. (geography) A mountain in the Atlas Mountain Range in the former Kingdom of Mauretania, said to support the heavens.
2. (Greek mythology) The Titan Atlas.

Inflection

Third declension.

Derived terms

• Ātlantes
• Ātlantēus
• Ātlantiacus
• Ātlantiades
• Ātlantias
• Ātlanticus
• Ātlantis
• Ātlantius

References

• Atlas in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “Atlas”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.

Portuguese

Atlas

Etymology

From Latin Atlas, from Ancient Greek Ἄτλας ‎(Átlas), meaning "The Bearer (of the Heavens)", from Ἄ ‎(Á), copulative prefix, + τλῆναι ‎(tlênai, “to thole, suffer, endure, bear”), from Proto-Indo-European *tele ‎(“to support, lift, weigh”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal, Carioca) IPA^(key): /ˈa.tlɐʃ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈa.tlɐs/

Proper noun

Atlas m

1. (Greek mythology) Atlas (titan who holds the sky)

Proper noun

Atlas f

1. (astronomy) Atlas (a moon of Saturn)

Proper noun

Atlas m pl

1. Atlas Mountains (a mountain range in northwestern Africa)

Derived terms

• atlante
• atlas
• atlântico
• Oceano Atlântico

Spanish

Proper noun

Atlas m

1. Atlas (god)
2. Atlas Mountains

English

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 and David J. Hawkes [eds.], Information Processing in Medical Imaging, page 154 (Springer; ISBN 9783540542469)

     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 1840460865)

     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, page 19 (Springer; ISBN 9783540402626)

     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. (topology) A collection of top-dimensional subspaces, called charts, each homeomorphic to Euclidean space, which comprise the entirety of a manifold, such that intersecting charts' respective homeomorphisms are compatible in a certain way.
5. (anatomy) The uppermost vertebra of the neck.
   • 1734, William Stukeley, Of the Gout, page 58:

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

6. One who supports a heavy burden; mainstay.
7. (architecture) A figure of a man used as a column; telamon.
8. (paper) A sheet of paper measuring 26 inches by 34 inches.
9. A rich satin fabric.

Translations

Anagrams

• AASLT
• salat

Czech

Noun

atlas m

1. atlas (bound collection of maps)

Finnish

Noun

atlas

1. atlas

Declension

Anagrams

• lasta, salat, talas

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

References

• "atlas" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Ancient Greek "Atlas", 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)

References

• “atlas” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Ancient Greek "Atlas"

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈatlas/

Noun

atlas m inan

1. atlas (bound collection of maps)

Declension

Portuguese

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἄτλας ‎(Átlas, “Atlas”).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈa.tlas/
• Homophone: Atlas

Noun

atlas m (plural atlas)

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

Synonyms

• (collection of maps): mapoteca

Hypernyms

• (topmost vertebra): vértebra, osso

Meronyms

• (collection of maps): mapa, carta

Holonyms

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

Coordinate terms

• (topmost vertebra): áxis

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

àtlas m ‎(Cyrillic spelling а̀тлас)

1. atlas

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From the name of the mythological Atlas, via Latin from Ancient Greek Ἄτλας ‎(Átlas).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.tlas/

Noun

atlas m ‎(plural atlas)

1. (anatomy, cartography) atlas

See also

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