1. A Lydian king, who, being admitted to the banquets of the gods, incurred their displeasure by betraying their secrets, and was condemned in consequence to suffer the constant pangs of hunger and thirst, though he stood up to the chin in water and had ever before him the offer of the choicest fruits, both of which receded from him as he attempted to reach them, while a huge rock hung over him, ever threatening to fall and crush him with its weight; a genus of wading birds. Tantalus-cup, a philosophical toy which amusingly exhibits the principle of the siphon.

Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language By Nuttall, P.Austin

• tentanus,
• rantals,
• tantalise,
• tantulum,
• santalun,
• tantalis,
• tantalit,
• tantalun,
• rantalus,
• fantalus,
• gantalus,
• tantalous,
• tentalus,
• tantelus,
• tantills,
• tantalla,
• tastabud,
• xanthous,
• Tantalik,
• Tawtaug

• tantalum,
• tantalite,
• tantalising,
• tantalizing,
• tantalize,
• tantilla,
• tantaliser,
• tantalise,
• tantalizer.

The plural of the "tantalus" can be the "tantaluses".

The singular of the "tantalus" can be the "tantalus".