Thanatos

English

Wikipedia

Thanatos (death) and his brother Hypnos (sleep)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Θάνατος (Thánatos).

Pronunciation

• (Can we verify this pronunciation?) IPA: /ˈθænəˌtos/

Proper noun

Thanatos

1. (Greek mythology) Ancient Greek God of peaceful or natural death.

Noun

Thanatos (uncountable)

1. (psychoanalysis) the death drive in Freudian psychoanalysis.

Usage notes

Freud did not use the term “Thanatos” – instead he used Todestrieb (“death drive”) – and scholarly works refer to it as “death drive”, but the term “Thanatos” is commonly used in psychoanalysis, in duality with Eros, having been introduced there by Paul Federn.

Antonyms

• (death drive): Eros (life drive)

Translations

Thanatos, the god of death

• Breton: Thanatos (br) m
• Bulgarian: Танатос (bg) (Tanatos) m
• Catalan: Tànatos (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 塔納托斯 (cmn)

  Cantonese: Taap³naap⁶tok³si¹

• Czech: Thanatos (cs) m
• Danish: Thanatos (da)
• Dutch: Thanatos (nl)
• Finnish: Thanatos (fi)
• French: Thanatos (fr) m
• Galician: Tánatos (gl) m
• German: Thanatos (de) m
• Greek: Θάνατος (el) (Thánatos) m
• Hebrew: תנטוס (he)
• Hungarian: Thanatosz (hu)
• Italian: Tanato (it) m

• Japanese: タナトス (ja) (Tanatosu)
• Korean: 타나토스 (ko) (tanatos)
• Lithuanian: Tanatas (lt) m
• Marathi: थानाटोस (mr) (thānāṭosa)
• Norwegian: Thanatos (no)
• Polish: Tanatos (pl) m
• Portuguese: Tânatos (pt) m, Tânato (pt) m
• Romanian: Thanatos (ro) m
• Russian: Танатос (ru) (Tanatos) m
• Serbo-Croatian: Tanatos (sh) m
• Slovak: Tanatos (sk) m
• Slovene: Tanatos (sl) m
• Spanish: Tánatos (es) m
• Swedish: Thanatos (sv)
• Thai: ทานาทอส (th)
• Turkish: Thanatos (tr)
• Ukrainian: Танатос (uk) (Tanatos) m