mythos
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Ancient Greek μῦθος (muthos, “report”, “tale”, “story”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
mythos (plural mythoi or (non-standard) mythoses)
- A story or set of stories relevant to or having a significant truth or meaning for a particular culture, religion, society, or other group.
- Anything delivered by word of mouth: a word, speech, conversation, or similar; a story, tale, or legend, especially a poetic tale.
- A tale, story, or narrative, usually verbally transmitted, or otherwise recorded into the written form from an alleged secondary source.
Usage notes[edit]
- An analysis of the comparative frequency of the plural forms mythoi and mythoses in four corpora reveals that, whilst mythoi is rare, mythoses is non-existent therein.[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.
Related terms[edit]
Related terms
See also[edit]
Translations[edit]
a story relevant to a particular culture or some other group
References[edit]
- ^ 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
Anagrams[edit]
French[edit]
Noun[edit]
mythos pl
- Plural form of mytho
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Ancient Greek.
Noun[edit]
mȳthos (genitive mȳthī); m, second declension
- a myth
Inflection[edit]
| Number | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | mȳthos | mȳthī |
| genitive | mȳthī | mȳthōrum |
| dative | mȳthō | mȳthīs |
| accusative | mȳthon1 | mȳthōs |
| ablative | mȳthō | mȳthīs |
| vocative | mȳthe | mȳthī |
1 Or mȳthum.
Synonyms[edit]
- (myth): fabula
