different between fiction vs mythos

English

Etymology

From Middle English ficcioun, from Old French ficcion (“dissimulation, ruse, invention”), from Latin ficti? (“a making, fashioning, a feigning, a rhetorical or legal fiction”), from fing? (“to form, mold, shape, devise, feign”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: f?k?-sh?n, IPA^(key): /?f?k.??n/
• Hyphenation: fic?tion

• Rhymes: -?k??n

Noun

fiction (countable and uncountable, plural fictions)

1. Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.
2. (uncountable) A verbal or written account that is not based on actual events (often intended to mislead).

3. (law) A legal fiction.

Synonyms

• fabrication
• figment

Antonyms

• documentary
• fact
• non-fiction
• truth

Hypernyms

• literary type

Hyponyms

• science fiction
• speculative fiction

Derived terms

• fictitious
• fictional
• non-fiction

Related terms

• fiction section

Descendants

• ? Irish: ficsean
• ? Scottish Gaelic: ficsean

Translations

Further reading

• fiction in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• fiction in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• fiction at OneLook Dictionary Search
• "fiction" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 134.

French

Etymology

From Old French, borrowed from Latin fictionem (nominative of fictio).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fik.sj??/

Noun

fiction f (plural fictions)

1. fiction

Related terms

• fictif
• science-fiction

Further reading

• “fiction” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin m?thos (“myth”), from Ancient Greek ????? (mûthos, “report, tale, story”). Doublet of myth.

The plural form mythoi is from Ancient Greek ????? (mûthoi), and the form mythoses from mythos +? -es.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m???s/, /?m??-/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?m??o?s/
• Hyphenation: myth?os

Noun

mythos (plural mythoi or mythoses)

1. Anything transmitted by word of mouth, such as a fable, legend, narrative, story, or tale (especially a poetic tale).
2. A story or set of stories relevant to or having a significant truth or meaning for a particular culture, religion, society, or other group; a myth, a mythology.
3. (by extension) A set of assumptions or beliefs about something.
4. (literature) A recurring theme; a motif.

Synonyms

• mythus

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

• mythos (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Y-moths, thymos

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi.to/

Noun

mythos m

1. plural of mytho

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (mûthos).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

m?thos m (genitive m?th?); second declension

1. a myth

Declension

Second-declension noun (Greek-type).

Synonyms

• (myth): fabula

Related terms

References

• mythos in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press