tártaro

• Hyphenation: tár‧ta‧ro

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese tartaro, from Medieval Latin Tartarus (“Tatar”).

tártaro m (plural tártaros, feminine tártara, feminine plural tártaras)

1. Tatar (a language of Russia)
2. Tatar (member of the Tatar ethnic group)

tártaro (feminine tártara, masculine plural tártaros, feminine plural tártaras, not comparable)

1. of Tartary (the Eurasian Steppe)
2. of Tatarstan
3. of the Tatar language

   Synonyms: tartáreo, tartárico

• molho tártaro

• Tartária
• Tartaristão

Borrowed from Late Latin tartarum (“tartar”).

tártaro m (plural tártaros)

1. (wine) tartar (compound deposited during wine-making)

   Synonyms: borra, sarro

2. (dentistry) tartar (yellow deposit on the teeth)

   Synonym: odontólito

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Τάρταρος (Tártaros, “Tartarus”).

• Tártaro

tártaro m (uncountable)

1. (Greek mythology) Tartarus

• “tártaro”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “tártaro”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaɾtaɾo/ [ˈt̪aɾ.t̪a.ɾo]

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• Rhymes: -aɾtaɾo
• Syllabification: tár‧ta‧ro

Borrowed from Latin Tartarus, from Ancient Greek Τάρταρος (Tártaros).

tártaro m (plural tártaros)

1. (poetic) hell

   Synonym: infierno

From Persian daradi, meaning residue, excrement, because it is what remains in the wine vessel's bottom, and influenced by the Greek Tartarus, the hell's bottom.

tártaro m (plural tártaros)

1. tartaric acid

   Synonym: tartrato ácido de potasio

2. (dentistry) tartar

   Synonym: sarro

Borrowed from French tartare, from Middle French Tartar, from Old French Tartar, from Medieval Latin Tartarus, from Old Turkic [script needed] (Tatar). Influenced by Latin Tartarus (“Hell (in Greek mythology)”), which is from Ancient Greek Τάρταρος (Tártaros).

tártaro (feminine tártara, masculine plural tártaros, feminine plural tártaras)

1. Tatar

tártaro m (plural tártaros, feminine tártara, feminine plural tártaras)

1. Tatar (person)

• Tartaria, Gran Tartaria
• Tartaristán

tártaro m (uncountable)

1. Tatar (language)

• “tártaro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
• tártaro on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es