different between ethos vs zeitgeist

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
   • (Can we find and add a quotation of Marcus Terentius Varro to this entry?)

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

Alternative forms

• Zeitgeist

Etymology

Borrowed from German Zeitgeist (literally “time-spirit”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?tsa?t?a?st/, /?za?t?a?st/

Noun

zeitgeist (plural zeitgeists or zeitgeister or zeitgeisten)

1. The spirit of the age; the taste, outlook, and spirit characteristic of a period.

   Synonyms: spiritus mundi, temper of the times, tenor of the times

   • 1996, Michael Vanden Heuvel, Elmer Rice: A Research and Production Sourcebook, Greenwood Publishing Group ?ISBN

     After quickly summarizing the zeitgeisten of the Greek, Elizabethan, and early modern periods and their effects on the theatre, Rice turns to the contemporary world.

Usage notes

• The German term, Zeitgeist, is commonly not pluralized. Geist (“ghost, spirit”) however has the plural Geister.

Derived terms

• zeitgeisty

See also

• sign of the times

Translations

Further reading

• zeitgeist on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Danish

Alternative forms

• Zeitgeist

Etymology

From German Zeitgeist.

Noun

zeitgeist c (singular definite zeitgeisten, not used in plural form)

1. zeitgeist
   • 2013, Lars Holger Holm, Kenneth Maximilian Geneser, Gotisk ?ISBN, page 140

     De bliver dermed til et fænomen i tiden, til tidsbilleder, som kan tydes og bruges i en afsøgning af zeitgeisten.

     They thus become a phenomenon of the time, time-images, that may be deciphered and used in an investigation of the zeitgeist.

   • 2010, Henrik List, Sidste nat i kødbyen, Lindhardt og Ringhof ?ISBN

     Og hvem ville så bryde sig om at være lyseslukker til zeitgeistens swingerfest? Hvem ville så sige nej tak til en plads i VIP-afdelingen til den store, subkulturelle love-in?

     And who would then like to be a party-pooper at the swinger's party of the zeitgeist? Who would then refuse a spot in the VIP section at the big, subcultural love-in?

Declension

Synonyms

• tidsånd

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from German Zeitgeist.

Noun

zeitgeist m (plural zeitgeists)

1. (sociology) zeitgeist (the dominant set of ideals and beliefs of an era)