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Added a fourth definition, based on discussion with my religious-philosophy proffessor.
- Very well, but if questioned, you will need to provide three independent citations, spanning over a year, of this usage. By the way, please sign all your comments on talk pages and in other discussion fora with four tildes (~~~~). Raifʻhār Doremítzwr 17:48, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
- Is there some reason not to merge definitions 1 and 4? They seem very similar, like different wordings of the same idea. Dvortygirl 18:09, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
- Hmm... I suppose that you are right. If you would like, go ahead and merge them; I am too tired to do so at present, but if it is not done in a couple of days, I will do it myself. Raifʻhār Doremítzwr 22:51, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
- Done. I've abbreviated a bit. Dvortygirl 23:12, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
accent[edit]
Would you care for correcting the accent of the Greek word? It has a cicumflex, not an acutus.
- Good point. Amended. Ƿidsiþ 16:03, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
Plural forms[edit]
Relocated the following usage note here, as the plural mythoses seems verifiable. — SGconlaw (talk) 16:00, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
- An analysis of the comparative frequency of the plural forms mythoi and mythoses in four corpora revealed that in the two of them that had either plural form, mythoi was rare and mythoses was non-existent.[1][2][3][4] Moreover, of ten other dictionaries, seven list mythoi as the only valid plural,[5][6][7][8][9][10][11] the other three are tacit regarding the matter,[12][13][14] but none of them mention mythoses.
- ^ The British National Corpus (BYU–BNC): mythoi (0) vs. mythoses (0)
- ^ The Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA): mythoi (1) vs. mythoses (0)
- ^ BYU–OED: The Oxford English Dictionary: mythoi (4) vs. mythoses (0)
- ^ The TIME Magazine Corpus of American English: mythoi (0) vs. mythoses (0)
- ^ “mythos” listed in the American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [4th Ed.]
- ^ “mythos” defined by Dictionary.com Unabridged
- ^ “mythos” defined by the Encarta® World English Dictionary [North American Ed.]
- ^ “mythos” defined by the Free Online Dictionary
- ^ “mythos” defined by Merriam–Webster’s Online Dictionary
- ^ “mythos, n.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [draft revision; June 2008]
- ^ “mythos” defined by the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © 1997 Random House, Inc., on Infoplease
- ^ “mythos” listed in Garth Kemerling’s Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names [2001]
- ^ “mythos” defined by Wordsmyth
- ^ “mythos” defined by YourDictionary.com
Pronunciation[edit]
The recording seems to have a schwa in the second syllable, not a 'lot' vowel.--77.85.55.14 20:11, 27 December 2019 (UTC)