different between mythology vs epic

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

English

Alternative forms

• epick (archaic)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /??p.?k/
• Rhymes: -?p?k

Etymology 1

From Middle French épique, from Latin epicus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (epikós), from ???? (épos, “word, story”).

Noun

epic (plural epics)

1. An extended narrative poem in elevated or dignified language, celebrating the feats of a deity, demigod (heroic epic), other legend or traditional hero.

2. A series of events considered appropriate to an epic.

3. (computing) In software development, a large or extended user story.

Synonyms

• épopée
• epos

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

epic (comparative more epic, superlative most epic)

1. Of or relating to an epic.

   Synonym: epical

   • 1983, Jan Knappert, Epic Poetry in Swahili and other African Languages, p. 58:

     The main theme of epic poetry is, of course, the hero, his life, his greatness of character, his deeds and his death.

2. Momentously heroic; grand in scale or character

   • China's epic traffic jam "vanished" [title of article]

3. (colloquial, slang, informal) Extending beyond the usual or ordinary.

   Synonyms: extraordinary, momentous, remarkable

Derived terms

• epically
• epicness
• epic fail

Translations

Etymology 2

From epi-, from Ancient Greek ??? (epí, “on top of”).

Adjective

epic (not comparable)

1. (category theory, of a morphism) That is an epimorphism.

Anagrams

• ECPI, pice

Danish

Etymology

From English epic, from Latin epicus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (epikós), from ???? (épos, “word, story”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??p?k/

Adjective

epic (neuter epic, plural and definite singular attributive epic)

1. (slang, informal) Extending beyond the usual or ordinary; extraordinary, momentous, great.

   Det var virkeligt epic.

Romanian

Etymology

From French épique, from Latin epicus.

Adjective

epic m or n (feminine singular epic?, masculine plural epici, feminine and neuter plural epice)

1. epic

Declension