Atlas Definition

Origin of Atlas

• From the name of the Ancient Greek mythological figure Ἄτλας (Atlas, “Bearer (of the Heavens)”), from τλῆναι (tlēnai, “to suffer”, “to endure”, “to bear”).

  From Wiktionary

• After Atlas Sense 1, probably from depictions of Atlas holding the world on his shoulders that appeared on the frontispieces of early works of this kind

  From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

• From Latin Atlas, from Ancient Greek Ἄτλας (Atlas).

  From Wiktionary

• Greek Atlās telə- in Indo-European roots

  From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition