Tartary

• Tatary (archaic)

From Old French Tartaire, from Medieval Latin Tartarus (“Tartar, Mongol”), from Old Turkic 𐱃𐱃𐰺, spelling influenced by Latin Tartarus (“Hell (in Greek mythology)”), from Ancient Greek Τάρταρος (Tártaros).

• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)təɹi

Tartary

1. (archaic) The Eurasian Steppe.
2. Obsolete form of Tartarus.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 102:

     An huge great Dragon horrible in ſight,
     Bred in the loathly lakes of Tartary

• Chinese Tartary
• Crim Tartary, Krim Tartary
• Kuban Tartary
• lamb of Tartary
• Little Tartary

• Tartar
• Tatar

• “Tartary”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Rattray