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English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???? (êthos, “character; custom, habit”). Cognate to Sanskrit ????? (svádh?, “habit, custom”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?i???s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?i??o?s/

Noun

ethos (plural ethe or ethea or ethoses)

1. The character or fundamental values of a person, people, culture, or movement.
2. (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.
3. (aesthetics) 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

Translations

See also

• logos
• pathos
• zeitgeist

Anagrams

• Theos, shote, sothe, those

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ???? (êthos).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?e?.t?os/, [?e?t???s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?e.tos/, [???t??s]

Noun

?thos n (irregular, genitive ?theos); third declension

1. Synonym of m?r?s
2. (drama) character
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Declension

Third-declension noun (irregular, Greek-type).

References

• ?thos 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, 1883–1887)
• ?th?s in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 604/1
• “?thos” on page 623/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

Portuguese

Noun

ethos m (plural ethos)

1. (aesthetics) ethos (the character or fundamental values of a person, people, culture or movement)

Related terms

• ética
• étnico

English

Etymology

From the Latin ?thologia (“the art of depicting or imitating character”), from the Ancient Greek ???????? (?thología, “painting of character, especially by mimic gestures”), from ???????? (?thológos, “painting character by mimic gestures”), from ???? (êthos, “character, especially moral character”). Equivalent to etho- +? -logy.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /i????l?d?i/
• Rhymes: -?l?d?i

Noun

ethology (countable and uncountable, plural ethologies)

1. (zoology) The scientific study of human and animal behaviour.
2. (obsolete) The study of the human ethos.

Related terms

• ethologist

Translations

See also

• ethnology

Further reading

• ethology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• ethology in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• ethology in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• ethology at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• theology