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語源

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.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ətˈlæntəs/
• (General American) IPA: /ətˈlæntəs/, [ət̚ˈlæɾ̃ɪs]

固有名詞

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.

派生語

• Atlantean

アナグラム

• antisalt, atlastin, natalist

固有名詞

Ātlantis f (genitive Ātlantidis); third declension

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

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

固有名詞

Ātlantis

1. genitive singular of Ātlās

参照

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