tartar

Meaning

  1. A red compound deposited during wine making; mostly potassium hydrogen tartrate — a source of cream of tartar.
  2. A hard yellow deposit on the teeth, formed from dental plaque.

Frequency

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Hyphenated as
tar‧tar
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈtɑɹ.tɚ/
Etymology

From Old French tartre, from Medieval Latin tartarum, from Byzantine Greek τάρταρον (tártaron), said to be from Arabic دُرْدِيّ (durdiyy), though it is already found in Pelagonius’s Ars veterinaria 46 in the adjective tartarālis, if the reading is correct.

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