"Τάρταρος" meaning in Ancient Greek

See Τάρταρος in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

IPA: /tár.ta.ros/, /ˈtar.ta.ros/, /ˈtar.ta.ros/, /tár.ta.ros/ (note: 5ᵗʰ BCE Attic), /ˈtar.ta.ros/ (note: 1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian), /ˈtar.ta.ros/ (note: 4ᵗʰ CE Koine), /ˈtar.ta.ros/ (note: 10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine), /ˈtar.ta.ros/ (note: 15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan)
Etymology: According to Strabo, this word had been fancifully believed to have been invented by Homer with the city of Ταρτησσός (Tartēssós) in mind, with a slight change of letters, it being west of the Ἡράκλειοι Στῆλαι (Hērákleioi Stêlai), or Pillars of Heracles, beyond which the sun sinks past Oceanus as it enters into Tartarus. A semantic connection of Definition 2 with the doomed, sunken civilization of Atlantis has not been overlooked. Klein suggests (at least partly) otherwise: "prob[ably] word of imitative origin, suggestive of something frightful." Etymology templates: {{onomatopoeic|grc|title=imitative}} imitative Head templates: {{grc-proper noun|Ταρτᾰ́ρου|m|second|head=Τάρτᾰρος}} Τάρτᾰρος • (Tártaros) m (genitive Ταρτᾰ́ρου); second declension Inflection templates: {{grc-decl|Τάρτᾰρος|ου|form=S}} Forms: Τάρτᾰρος [canonical], Tártaros [romanization], Ταρτᾰ́ρου [genitive], Attic declension-2 [table-tags], ὁ Τάρτᾰρος [nominative, singular], τοῦ Ταρτᾰ́ρου [genitive, singular], τῷ Ταρτᾰ́ρῳ [dative, singular], τὸν Τάρτᾰρον [accusative, singular], Τάρτᾰρε [singular, vocative]
  1. Tartarus
    Sense id: en-Τάρταρος-grc-name-zkxF-lqe Categories (other): Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header, Ancient Greek masculine proper nouns in the second declension, Ancient Greek onomatopoeias, Ancient Greek second-declension nouns without gender specified, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header: 49 51 Disambiguation of Ancient Greek masculine proper nouns in the second declension: 50 50 Disambiguation of Ancient Greek onomatopoeias: 49 51 Disambiguation of Ancient Greek second-declension nouns without gender specified: 49 51 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 45 55 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 48 52
  2. (Christendom) metaphor for Hell
    Sense id: en-Τάρταρος-grc-name-hM~uCa0y Categories (other): Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header, Ancient Greek masculine proper nouns in the second declension, Ancient Greek onomatopoeias, Ancient Greek second-declension nouns without gender specified, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header: 49 51 Disambiguation of Ancient Greek masculine proper nouns in the second declension: 50 50 Disambiguation of Ancient Greek onomatopoeias: 49 51 Disambiguation of Ancient Greek second-declension nouns without gender specified: 49 51 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 45 55 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 48 52
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: Τάρτᾰρᾰ (Tártara) Derived forms: Ταρτᾰ́ρειος (Tartáreios), ταρτᾰρῐ́ζω (tartarízō), Ταρτᾰ́ρῐος (Tartários), ταρτᾰρῑ́της (tartarī́tēs), Ταρτᾰρόπαις (Tartarópais), ταρτᾰροῦχος (tartaroûkhos), ταρτᾰρόω (tartaróō) Related terms: Τάνταλος (Tántalos)
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      "word": "ταρτᾰρῐ́ζω"
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
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          "expansion": "→ Asturian: Tártaru",
          "name": "desc"
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      ],
      "text": "→ Asturian: Tártaru"
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    {
      "depth": 1,
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        {
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          "expansion": "→ Breton: Tartarus",
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      "text": "→ Breton: Tartarus"
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          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Bulgarian: Тартар (Tartar)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
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            "1": "ca",
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          "name": "desc"
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      "text": "→ Catalan: Tàrtar"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
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        {
          "args": {
            "1": "cs",
            "2": "Tartaros",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Czech: Tartaros",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Czech: Tartaros"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "da",
            "2": "Tartaros",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Danish: Tartaros",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Danish: Tartaros"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "nl",
            "2": "Tartarus",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Dutch: Tartarus",
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      "text": "→ Dutch: Tartarus"
    },
    {
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        {
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            "2": "Tartarus",
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          "expansion": "→ English: Tartarus",
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      ],
      "text": "→ English: Tartarus"
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    {
      "depth": 1,
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        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fi",
            "2": "Tartaros",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Finnish: Tartaros",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Finnish: Tartaros"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fr",
            "2": "Tartare",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ French: Tartare",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ French: Tartare"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "de",
            "2": "Tartaros",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ German: Tartaros",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ German: Tartaros"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
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            "2": "Τάρταρος"
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          "expansion": "Greek: Τάρταρος (Tártaros)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Greek: Τάρταρος (Tártaros)"
    },
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      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "he",
            "2": "טרטרוס",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Hebrew: טרטרוס",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Hebrew: טרטרוס"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "it",
            "2": "Tartaro",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Italian: Tartaro",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Italian: Tartaro"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ja",
            "2": "タルタロス",
            "bor": "1",
            "tr": "Tarutarosu"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Japanese: タルタロス (Tarutarosu)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Japanese: タルタロス (Tarutarosu)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
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        {
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            "1": "la",
            "2": "Tartarus",
            "bor": "1"
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          "expansion": "→ Latin: Tartarus",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Latin: Tartarus"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "lt",
            "2": "Tartaras",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Lithuanian: Tartaras",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Lithuanian: Tartaras"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
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          "args": {
            "1": "nds",
            "2": "Tartaros",
            "bor": "1"
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          "expansion": "→ Low German: Tartaros",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Low German: Tartaros"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "lb",
            "2": "Tartaros",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Luxembourgish: Tartaros",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Luxembourgish: Tartaros"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "no",
            "2": "Tartaros",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Norwegian: Tartaros",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Norwegian: Tartaros"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pl",
            "2": "Tartar",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Polish: Tartar",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Polish: Tartar"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pt",
            "2": "Tártaro",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Portuguese: Tártaro",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Portuguese: Tártaro"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ro",
            "2": "Tartarus",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Romanian: Tartarus",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Romanian: Tartarus"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ru",
            "2": "Та́ртар",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Russian: Та́ртар (Tártar)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Russian: Та́ртар (Tártar)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sh",
            "2": "Tartar",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Serbo-Croatian: Tartar",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Serbo-Croatian: Tartar"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "scn",
            "2": "Tàrtaru",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Sicilian: Tàrtaru",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Sicilian: Tàrtaru"
    },
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      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
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            "2": "Tartaros",
            "bor": "1"
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          "expansion": "→ Slovak: Tartaros",
          "name": "desc"
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      ],
      "text": "→ Slovak: Tartaros"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
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            "1": "sl",
            "2": "Tartar",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Slovene: Tartar",
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        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Slovene: Tartar"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "es",
            "2": "Tártaro",
            "3": "Tártaros",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Spanish: Tártaro, Tártaros",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Spanish: Tártaro, Tártaros"
    },
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      "depth": 1,
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        {
          "args": {
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            "2": "Tartaros",
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          "expansion": "→ Swedish: Tartaros",
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        }
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      "text": "→ Swedish: Tartaros"
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      "depth": 1,
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          "expansion": "→ Thai: ทาร์ทารัส",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Thai: ทาร์ทารัส"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
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        {
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            "1": "tr",
            "2": "Tartarus",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Turkish: Tartarus",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Turkish: Tartarus"
    },
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      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "vi",
            "2": "Tartarus",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Vietnamese: Tartarus",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Vietnamese: Tartarus"
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  "etymology_text": "According to Strabo, this word had been fancifully believed to have been invented by Homer with the city of Ταρτησσός (Tartēssós) in mind, with a slight change of letters, it being west of the Ἡράκλειοι Στῆλαι (Hērákleioi Stêlai), or Pillars of Heracles, beyond which the sun sinks past Oceanus as it enters into Tartarus. A semantic connection of Definition 2 with the doomed, sunken civilization of Atlantis has not been overlooked.\nKlein suggests (at least partly) otherwise: \"prob[ably] word of imitative origin, suggestive of something frightful.\"",
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        "table-tags"
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        "class"
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        "singular"
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        "singular"
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      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
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      "roman": "tòn Tártaron",
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        "singular"
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        "singular",
        "vocative"
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    }
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  "lang_code": "grc",
  "pos": "name",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "Tántalos",
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        {
          "_dis": "48 52",
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      "glosses": [
        "metaphor for Hell"
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      "id": "en-Τάρταρος-grc-name-hM~uCa0y",
      "links": [
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      "qualifier": "Christendom",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Christendom) metaphor for Hell"
      ]
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  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/tár.ta.ros/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈtar.ta.ros/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈtar.ta.ros/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tár.ta.ros/",
      "note": "5ᵗʰ BCE Attic"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈtar.ta.ros/",
      "note": "1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈtar.ta.ros/",
      "note": "4ᵗʰ CE Koine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈtar.ta.ros/",
      "note": "10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈtar.ta.ros/",
      "note": "15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "Tártara",
      "word": "Τάρτᾰρᾰ"
    }
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  "wikipedia": [
    "Atlantis",
    "Ernest Klein",
    "Oceanus",
    "Pillars of Heracles",
    "Strabo",
    "Tartarus"
  ],
  "word": "Τάρταρος"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Ancient Greek 3-syllable words",
    "Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header",
    "Ancient Greek lemmas",
    "Ancient Greek masculine nouns",
    "Ancient Greek masculine proper nouns",
    "Ancient Greek masculine proper nouns in the second declension",
    "Ancient Greek onomatopoeias",
    "Ancient Greek proparoxytone terms",
    "Ancient Greek proper nouns",
    "Ancient Greek second-declension nouns without gender specified",
    "Ancient Greek second-declension proper nouns",
    "Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "roman": "Tartáreios",
      "word": "Ταρτᾰ́ρειος"
    },
    {
      "roman": "tartarízō",
      "word": "ταρτᾰρῐ́ζω"
    },
    {
      "roman": "Tartários",
      "word": "Ταρτᾰ́ρῐος"
    },
    {
      "roman": "tartarī́tēs",
      "word": "ταρτᾰρῑ́της"
    },
    {
      "roman": "Tartarópais",
      "word": "Ταρτᾰρόπαις"
    },
    {
      "roman": "tartaroûkhos",
      "word": "ταρτᾰροῦχος"
    },
    {
      "roman": "tartaróō",
      "word": "ταρτᾰρόω"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ast",
            "2": "Tártaru",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Asturian: Tártaru",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Asturian: Tártaru"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "br",
            "2": "Tartarus",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Breton: Tartarus",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Breton: Tartarus"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "bg",
            "2": "Тартар",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Bulgarian: Тартар (Tartar)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Bulgarian: Тартар (Tartar)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ca",
            "2": "Tàrtar",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Catalan: Tàrtar",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Catalan: Tàrtar"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "cs",
            "2": "Tartaros",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Czech: Tartaros",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Czech: Tartaros"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "da",
            "2": "Tartaros",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Danish: Tartaros",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Danish: Tartaros"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "nl",
            "2": "Tartarus",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Dutch: Tartarus",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Dutch: Tartarus"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "Tartarus",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ English: Tartarus",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ English: Tartarus"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fi",
            "2": "Tartaros",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Finnish: Tartaros",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Finnish: Tartaros"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fr",
            "2": "Tartare",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ French: Tartare",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ French: Tartare"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "de",
            "2": "Tartaros",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ German: Tartaros",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ German: Tartaros"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "el",
            "2": "Τάρταρος"
          },
          "expansion": "Greek: Τάρταρος (Tártaros)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Greek: Τάρταρος (Tártaros)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "he",
            "2": "טרטרוס",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Hebrew: טרטרוס",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Hebrew: טרטרוס"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "it",
            "2": "Tartaro",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Italian: Tartaro",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Italian: Tartaro"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ja",
            "2": "タルタロス",
            "bor": "1",
            "tr": "Tarutarosu"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Japanese: タルタロス (Tarutarosu)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Japanese: タルタロス (Tarutarosu)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "la",
            "2": "Tartarus",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Latin: Tartarus",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Latin: Tartarus"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "lt",
            "2": "Tartaras",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Lithuanian: Tartaras",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Lithuanian: Tartaras"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "nds",
            "2": "Tartaros",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Low German: Tartaros",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Low German: Tartaros"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "lb",
            "2": "Tartaros",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Luxembourgish: Tartaros",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Luxembourgish: Tartaros"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "no",
            "2": "Tartaros",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Norwegian: Tartaros",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Norwegian: Tartaros"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pl",
            "2": "Tartar",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Polish: Tartar",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Polish: Tartar"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pt",
            "2": "Tártaro",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Portuguese: Tártaro",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Portuguese: Tártaro"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ro",
            "2": "Tartarus",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Romanian: Tartarus",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Romanian: Tartarus"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ru",
            "2": "Та́ртар",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Russian: Та́ртар (Tártar)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Russian: Та́ртар (Tártar)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sh",
            "2": "Tartar",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Serbo-Croatian: Tartar",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Serbo-Croatian: Tartar"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "scn",
            "2": "Tàrtaru",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Sicilian: Tàrtaru",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Sicilian: Tàrtaru"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sk",
            "2": "Tartaros",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Slovak: Tartaros",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Slovak: Tartaros"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sl",
            "2": "Tartar",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Slovene: Tartar",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Slovene: Tartar"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "es",
            "2": "Tártaro",
            "3": "Tártaros",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Spanish: Tártaro, Tártaros",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Spanish: Tártaro, Tártaros"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sv",
            "2": "Tartaros",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Swedish: Tartaros",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Swedish: Tartaros"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "th",
            "2": "ทาร์ทารัส",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Thai: ทาร์ทารัส",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Thai: ทาร์ทารัส"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "tr",
            "2": "Tartarus",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Turkish: Tartarus",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Turkish: Tartarus"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "vi",
            "2": "Tartarus",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Vietnamese: Tartarus",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Vietnamese: Tartarus"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "title": "imitative"
      },
      "expansion": "imitative",
      "name": "onomatopoeic"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "According to Strabo, this word had been fancifully believed to have been invented by Homer with the city of Ταρτησσός (Tartēssós) in mind, with a slight change of letters, it being west of the Ἡράκλειοι Στῆλαι (Hērákleioi Stêlai), or Pillars of Heracles, beyond which the sun sinks past Oceanus as it enters into Tartarus. A semantic connection of Definition 2 with the doomed, sunken civilization of Atlantis has not been overlooked.\nKlein suggests (at least partly) otherwise: \"prob[ably] word of imitative origin, suggestive of something frightful.\"",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Τάρτᾰρος",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Tártaros",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Ταρτᾰ́ρου",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Attic declension-2",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grc-decl",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Second declension",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ὁ Τάρτᾰρος",
      "roman": "ho Tártaros",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τοῦ Ταρτᾰ́ρου",
      "roman": "toû Tartárou",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τῷ Ταρτᾰ́ρῳ",
      "roman": "tôi Tartárōi",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τὸν Τάρτᾰρον",
      "roman": "tòn Tártaron",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Τάρτᾰρε",
      "roman": "Tártare",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "Ταρτᾰ́ρου",
        "2": "m",
        "3": "second",
        "head": "Τάρτᾰρος"
      },
      "expansion": "Τάρτᾰρος • (Tártaros) m (genitive Ταρτᾰ́ρου); second declension",
      "name": "grc-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "Τάρτᾰρος",
        "2": "ου",
        "form": "S"
      },
      "name": "grc-decl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Ancient Greek",
  "lang_code": "grc",
  "pos": "name",
  "related": [
    {
      "roman": "Tántalos",
      "word": "Τάνταλος"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Tartarus"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Tartarus",
          "Tartarus"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "metaphor for Hell"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Hell",
          "Hell"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "Christendom",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Christendom) metaphor for Hell"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/tár.ta.ros/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈtar.ta.ros/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈtar.ta.ros/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/tár.ta.ros/",
      "note": "5ᵗʰ BCE Attic"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈtar.ta.ros/",
      "note": "1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈtar.ta.ros/",
      "note": "4ᵗʰ CE Koine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈtar.ta.ros/",
      "note": "10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈtar.ta.ros/",
      "note": "15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "roman": "Tártara",
      "word": "Τάρτᾰρᾰ"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Atlantis",
    "Ernest Klein",
    "Oceanus",
    "Pillars of Heracles",
    "Strabo",
    "Tartarus"
  ],
  "word": "Τάρταρος"
}

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