Atlantis

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.

• IPA^(key): /ətˈlæntəs/

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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:

     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.

• Atlantean

• antisalt, atlastin, natalist

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Atlantis n or f (plural Atlantis)

1. Atlantis

• atlantisch
• Atlanter m, also Atlantier m

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

Ātlantis f (genitive Ātlantidis); third declension

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

Third-declension noun.

Ātlantis

1. genitive singular of Ātlās

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