The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromΤάνταλος
- English todaytantalize
From Tantalus (Ancient Greek Τάνταλος (Tántalos)) in Greek mythology, who was condemned to Tartarus in the underworld. There, he had to stand for eternity in water that receded from him when he stooped to drink, beneath fruit trees whose branches were always out of reach. Derived as Tantalus + -ize.
Words from the same roots
Ancient GreekΤάνταλος all →
tantalus
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.