Myth & LegendGreek → English
Atlas
A book of maps.
The Greek roots
Ἄτλας
Átlas
the Titan Atlas
Literally: “the bearer of the heavens”
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The story of the word
The Titan Atlas held up the sky. Early map collections showed him bearing the world, and the name stuck.
The same roots elsewhere
Other languages reached for exactly the same Greek pieces.
In a sentence
She traced the route across the road atlas.