different between mythopoeic vs mythos

English

Etymology

From Hellenistic Ancient Greek ????????? (muthopoiía, “mythopoeia”) +? -ic.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /m???(?)?pi??k/

Adjective

mythopoeic (comparative more mythopoeic, superlative most mythopoeic)

1. Giving rise to myths; pertaining to the creation of myth.
   • 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.25:

     No other fully historical hero has furnished such a perfect opportunity for the mythopoeic faculty.

Anagrams

• homeotypic

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