Noun: Tartar
| Singular | Tartar |
| Plural | Tartars |
Sample Sentences
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Persia is a great country, which was in old times very illustrious and powerful; but now the Tartars have wasted and destroyed it. [1871, Henry Yule, transl., The Travels of Marco Polo, Marco Polo, book 1, chapter 13:]
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I haven't escaped sickness all my life to get off easily now. […] I knew when my turn came, it would be a Tartar. [2003, Erik Larson, “Alone”, in The Devil in the White City, Vintage Books, page 106:]
Nouns inflected like Tartar
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old French Tartaire, from Medieval Latin Tartarus (“Tartar, Mongol”), from Old Turkic 𐱃𐱃𐰺 (t¹t¹r¹), spelling influenced by Latin Tartarus (“Hell (in Greek mythology)”), from Ancient Greek Τάρταρος (Tártaros). See: Latin Nouns '
Tartarus'.