different between folklore vs mythology

English

Etymology

From folk +? lore, coined in 1846 by William Thoms to replace terms such as "popular antiquities". Thoms imitated German terms such as Volklehre (“people's customs”) and Volksüberlieferung ("popular tradition"). Compare also Old English folclar ("popular instruction; homily") and West Frisian folkloare (“folklore”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?f??k.l??/

Noun

folklore (countable and uncountable, plural folklores)

1. The tales, legends and superstitions of a particular ethnic population.

Derived terms

• folkloric
• folklorish
• folklorism
• folklorist

Related terms

• folkloristics

Descendants

Translations

See also

• folk
• lore
• myth
• oral tradition
• intangible cultural heritage

Catalan

Etymology

From English folklore.

Noun

folklore m (uncountable)

1. folklore

Derived terms

• folklòric

Further reading

• “folklore” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “folklore” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “folklore” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “folklore” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Danish

Etymology

From English folklore, from folk + lore.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?lklo?r?/, [f?l???lo??], [f?l?k?lo??]

Noun

folklore c (singular definite folkloren, not used in plural form)

1. folklore

Further reading

• “folklore” in Den Danske Ordbog
• folklore on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

French

Etymology

From English folklore.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?l.kl??/

Noun

folklore m (plural folklores)

1. folklore

Further reading

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English folklore.

Noun

folklore m (definite singular folkloren, indefinite plural folklorer, definite plural folklorene)

1. folklore

References

• “folklore” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English folklore.

Noun

folklore m (definite singular folkloren, indefinite plural folklorar, definite plural folklorane)

1. folklore

References

• “folklore” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Spanish

Noun

folklore m (plural folklores)

1. Alternative spelling of folclore

English

Etymology

First attested as Middle English [Term?] in 1412. From Middle French mythologie, from Latin mythologia, from Ancient Greek ????????? (muthología, “legend”) ????????? (muthologé?, “I tell tales”), from ????????? (muthológos, “legend”), from ????? (mûthos, “story”) + ???? (lég?, “I say”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: m?thôlôj?, IPA^(key): /m????l?d?i/
• (US) IPA^(key): /m????l?d?i/
• Rhymes: -?l?d?i

Noun

mythology (countable and uncountable, plural mythologies)

1. (countable and uncountable) The collection of myths of a people, concerning the origin of the people, history, deities, ancestors and heroes.
2. (countable and uncountable) A similar body of myths concerning an event, person or institution.
   • 2003, Peter Utgaard, Remembering & Forgetting Nazism: Education, National Identity, and the Victim Myth in Postwar Austria, Berghahn Books, ?ISBN, page x:

     This program to distinguish Austria from Germany was important to building a new Austria, but it also indirectly contributed to victim mythology by implying that participation in the Nazi war of conquest was antithetical to Austrian identity.

3. (countable and uncountable) Pervasive elements of a fictional universe that resemble a mythological universe.
   • 2000 April 28, Caryn James (?), As Scheherazade Was Saying . . ., in The New York Times, page E31, reproduced in The New York Times Television Reviews 2000, Routledge (2001), ?ISBN, page 198:

     This tongue-in-cheek episode is especially fun for people who don’t take their “X-Files” mythology seriously.

4. (uncountable) The systematic collection and study of myths.

Synonyms

• godlore

Derived terms

• mythological
• mythologist

Translations

See also

• Christian mythology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Egyptian mythology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Greek mythology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Japanese mythology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Norse mythology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Roman mythology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Indian mythology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia