Tartarian

[tahr-tair-ee-uhn]

adjective

1. of, relating to, or characteristic of a Tartar or the Tartars, the Mongolian and Turkish tribes who overran Asia and much of Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages.

Tartarian

/ tɑːˈtɛərɪən /

adjective

1. a variant spelling of Tatarian See Tatarian

Word History and Origins

Origin of Tartarian¹

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English; Tartar, -ian

Example Sentences

“When Prometheus brought fire to mankind — in a tube of fennel, as you may remember, with his brother Epimetheus — Zeus punished him by chaining him to a Tartarian crag, while his liver was pecked out.”

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Black Tartarian is a Heart cherry that would be good to try in the backyard.

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The vine was Tartarian honeysuckle, a weed that grows in waste places and on abandoned ground.

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The flowers of Tartarian honeysuckle have no smell.

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Tartarian honeysuckle reminded me of Tartarus, the land of the dead in Virgil’s Aeneid, the underworld, where the shades of the dead whispered in the shadows.

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