Atlantis
nome própriocorrente nos diálogos
- Reino Unido//ətˈlæntəs//
- Estados Unidos//ətˈlæntəs//
- Estados Unidos/[ət̚ˈlæɾ̃ɪs]/
A mythical country said to have sunk into the Atlantic Ocean.
nome próprio
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A mythical country said to have sunk into the Atlantic Ocean.
How far, since then, the ocean streams / Have swept us from that land of dreams, / That land of fiction and of truth, / The lost Atlantis of our youth!
I might have drifted on for my whole life as a psychical Researcher, showing a sympathetic, but more or less dilettante attitude towards the whole subject, as if we were arguing about some impersonal thing such as the existence of Atlantis or the Baconian controversy.
Etimologia
From Ancient Greek Ἀτλαντίς (Atlantís), from Ἄτλας (Átlas, “Atlas”), either from ἁ- (ha-, copulative prefix) + Proto-Indo-European *telh₂- (“bear, undergo, endure”) or of Pre-Greek origin.
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