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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

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?le?.to?/, [???e?t?o?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?le.to/, [?l??t??]

Verb

l?t? (present infinitive l?t?re, perfect active l?t?v?, supine l?t?tum); first conjugation

1. to kill, to slay

Conjugation

Noun

l?t? m

1. dative singular of l?tum
2. ablative singular of l?tum

References

• leto in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• leto in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• leto in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• leto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• leto in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia?^[1]
• leto in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• leto in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

lèto f

1. (non-standard since 1917) definite singular of lètu

Verb

leto

1. (obsolete) past plural of lata
2. (obsolete) past plural of låta

Anagrams

• loet, lote, tole, tòle

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• (Ijekavian): lj?to
• (Ikavian): lito

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *l?to (“year”), from Proto-Indo-European *leh?tom.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lêto/
• Hyphenation: le?to

Noun

l?to n (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. summer, summertime
2. (archaic) year

Declension

See also

Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *l?to (“summer”), from Proto-Indo-European *leh?tom.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?t?/

Noun

leto n (genitive singular leta, nominative plural letá, genitive plural liet, declension pattern of mesto)

1. summer

Declension

Related terms

• letný
• letno

See also

• (seasons) ro?né obdobie; jar, jese?, leto, zima ^{(Category: sk:Seasons)}

Further reading

• leto in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *l?to (“year”), from Proto-Indo-European *leh?tom.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lè?t?/

Noun

l??to n

1. year

Inflection

Further reading

• “leto”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Swazi

Etymology

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Pronoun

leto

1. those; class 8 distal demonstrative.

Venetian

Alternative forms

• ?eto

Etymology

From Latin lectus. Compare Italian letto

Noun

leto m (plural leti)

1. bed