ethos
English
Etymology
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(deprecated template usage) From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek ἦθος (êthos, “character; custom, habit”). Cognate to Sanskrit स्वधा (svádhā, “habit, custom”).
Pronunciation
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Noun
ethos (plural ethe or ethea or ethoses)
- The character or fundamental values of a person, people, culture, or movement.
- (rhetoric) A form of rhetoric in which the writer or speaker invokes their authority, competence or expertise in an attempt to persuade others that their view is correct.
- (aesthetic) The traits in a work of art which express the ideal or typic character, as influenced by the ethos (character or fundamental values) of a people, rather than realistic or emotional situations or individual character in a narrow sense; opposed to pathos.
Related terms
Terms etymologically related to ethos
- etheic
- ethics
- ethogram (zoölogy)
- ethography
- ethoi (hypercorrect)
- ethopoetic (obsolete, rare)
- ethosed (rare, non-standard)
- ethoses (non-standard)
Translations
character or fundamental values of a people
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form of rhetoric
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See also
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἦθος (êthos).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈeː.tʰos/, [ˈeːt̪ʰɔs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈe.tos/, [ˈɛːt̪os]
Noun
ēthos n (irregular, genitive ētheos); third declension
- Synonym of mōrēs
- (drama) character
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Marcus Terentius Varro to this entry?)
- 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis historia 35.98:
- Is omnium prīmus animum pīnxit et sēnsūs hominis expressit, quae vocant Graecī ēthē, item perturbātiōnēs, dūrior paulō in colōribus.
- He [viz. Aristides of Thebes] was the first of all painters who depicted the mind and expressed the feelings of a human being, what the Greeks term ethe, and also the emotions; he was a little too hard in his colours.
- Is omnium prīmus animum pīnxit et sēnsūs hominis expressit, quae vocant Graecī ēthē, item perturbātiōnēs, dūrior paulō in colōribus.
Declension
Third-declension noun (irregular, Greek-type).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | ēthos | ēthea ēthē |
Genitive | ētheos | — |
Dative | — | ēthesi ēthesin |
Accusative | ēthos | ēthea ēthē |
Ablative | — | ēthesi ēthesin |
Vocative | ēthos | ēthea ēthē |
References
- “ēthos”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ethos in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- ēthŏs in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 604/1.
- “ēthos” on page 623/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
Portuguese
Noun
ethos m (invariable)
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