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語源 1

From Old French tartre, from Medieval Latin tartarum, from Byzantine Greek τάρταρον (tártaron), said to be from Arabic دُرْدِيّ‎ (durdiyy), though it is already found in Pelagonius’s Ars veterinaria 46 in the adjective tartarālis, if the reading is correct.

名詞

tartar (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 tartars)

1. A red compound deposited during wine making; mostly potassium hydrogen tartrate — a source of cream of tartar.
2. A hard yellow deposit on the teeth, formed from dental plaque.

派生語

語源 2

From figurative use of Tartar.

名詞

tartar (複数形 tartars)

1. (dated) A fearsome or angrily violent person.
   • 1929, Dashiell Hammett, chapter 3, in The Dain Curse‎^[1], New York: Vintage, published 1972, page 28:

     Mrs. Begg said she liked Mrs. Dain, who was a sensible woman and a first-rate housewife, but that Gabrielle was a tartar.

派生語

• tartar sauce