Atrax

Coined by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge and published in 1877

Possibly from Latin ātra (feminine nominative) meaning dull black, dark., but more likely from Latin Atrax- although there is no obvious connection between Australian spiders and ancient Greece. A third possibility could involve a misspelling of Latin atrox, having the meaning ‘terrible, frightening, dreadful’ (more appropriate in the light of the potency of the venom).

Atrax m

1. A taxonomic species within the family Hexathelidae – certain of the funnel-web tarantulas.

• (genus): Araneae - order; Opisthothelae - suborder; Mygalomorphae - infraorder; Hexatheloidea - superfamily; Hexathelidae - family; Atracinae - subfamily;  - genus

• (genus): Atrax robustus, Atrax sutherlandi, Atrax yorkmainorum - species

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Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἄτραξ (Átrax).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈa.traks], [ˈat.raks]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈaː.t̪raks], [ˈat̪.raks]

Atrax m sg (genitive Atracis); third declension

1. A town of Thessaly, situated above the river Peneus
2. a river in Aetolia, mentioned by Pliny

Third-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• Atraces
• Atracis
• Atracius

• “Atrax”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Atrax in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Atrax”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly