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Etymology
From the Greek Mythological figure Atlas (see below), meaning "The Bearer (of the Heavens)", from tlenai, (to suffer, endure, bear).

Proper noun
Atlas

1. Greek mythology : 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 discovered in 1980 from Voyager photos.
3. Astronomy a crater in the first quadrant of the moon
4. (Warfare, U.S.) Intercontinental ballistic missile

Related terms
Atlas Mountains

Translations
trans-top|Greek mythology
Ancient Greek ��λα�
Finnish: Atlas
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Greek: t|el|��λα�|m|tr�tlas|scGrek
Hungarian: t+|hu|Atlasz
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trans-top|a moon of Saturn
Finnish: Atlas
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Hungarian: t|hu|Atlasz
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trans-top|a crater of the moon
Finnish: Atlas
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Hungarian: t|hu|Atlasz
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trans-top|intercontinental ballistic missile
Finnish: Atlas
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ttbc|Dutch: Atlas m (1,2)
ttbc|German: Atlas m
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ttbc|Portuguese: #Portuguese|Atlas m
ttbc|Swedish: Atlas c
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German
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Noun
de-noun-m|genitiveAtlas|pluralAtlanten|pl2=Atlasse

1. context|cartography|or|reference work|lang=de atlas#English|atlas

Latin

Proper noun
Atlas, Wiktionary Appendix:Latin third declension|-antis m

1. The Titan Atlas

Portuguese

Proper noun
Atlas m

1. #English|Atlas (mythology).

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