tartar

Tar·tar

cream of tartar, esp. the crude form present in grape juice and forming a reddish or whitish, crustlike deposit (argol) in wine casks
a hard deposit on the teeth, consisting of saliva proteins, food deposits, various salts, as calcium phosphate, etc.; dental calculus

Origin of tartar

Middle English from Medieval Latin tartarum from Medieval Greek tartaron from uncertain or unknown; perhaps

Tartar

Tatar
[usuallyt-] an irritable, violent, intractable person

Origin of Tartar

Middle English Tartre from Medieval Latin Tartarus, a Tatar, altered (after Tartarus) from Persian T?t?r

Tatar

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tartar

noun

Dentistry A hard yellowish deposit on the teeth, consisting of organic secretions and food particles deposited in various salts, such as calcium carbonate. Also called calculus .
A reddish acid compound, chiefly potassium bitartrate, found in the juice of grapes and deposited on the sides of casks during winemaking.

Origin of tartar

Middle English tartre potassium bitartrate from Old French from Medieval Latin tartarum argol from Medieval Greek tartaron

Tartar

noun

See Tatar.

Origin of Tartar

Middle English Tartre from Old French Tartare from Medieval Latin Tartarus alteration ( influenced by Latin Tartarus Tartarus ) of Persian Tātār ; see Tatar .

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A hard yellowish deposit on the teeth, consisting of organic secretions and food particles deposited in various salts, such as calcium carbonate.
A reddish acid compound consisting of a tartrate of potassium, found in the juice of grapes and deposited on the sides of wine casks.

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Noun

(countable and uncountable, plural tartars)

A red compound deposited during wine making; mostly potassium hydrogen tartrate - a source of cream of tartar.
A hard yellow deposit on the teeth.

Origin

Via Middle English, via Medieval Latin from Medieval Greek Ï„Î¬ÏÏ„Î±ÏÎ¿Î½ (tartaron), probably from Arabic[Arabic?].

Origin

From figurative use of Tartar

(dated) A fearsome or angrily violent person.

Noun

(plural Tartars)

Alternative spelling of Tatar.
A member of the various tribes and their descendants of Tartary, such as Turks, Mongols and Manchus.
(figuratively, dated) A person of a keen, irritable temper.

Proper noun

one of the tributaries of the Kura River, mostly flowing through the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic

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tartar - Medical Definition

n.

A hard yellowish deposit on the teeth, consisting of organic secretions and food particles deposited in various salts, such as calcium carbonate. Also called calculus