different between mythos vs ethos

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

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???? (êthos, “character; custom, habit”). Cognate to Sanskrit ????? (svádh?, “habit, custom”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?i???s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?i??o?s/

Noun

ethos (plural ethe or ethea or ethoses)

1. The character or fundamental values of a person, people, culture, or movement.
2. (rhetoric) A form of rhetoric in which the writer or speaker invokes their authority, competence or expertise in an attempt to persuade others that their view is correct.
3. (aesthetics) The traits in a work of art which express the ideal or typic character, as influenced by the ethos (character or fundamental values) of a people, rather than realistic or emotional situations or individual character in a narrow sense; opposed to pathos.

Related terms

Translations

See also

• logos
• pathos
• zeitgeist

Anagrams

• Theos, shote, sothe, those

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ???? (êthos).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

?thos n (irregular, genitive ?theos); third declension

1. Synonym of m?r?s
2. (drama) character
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Declension

Third-declension noun (irregular, Greek-type).

References

• ?thos in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ethos in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• ?th?s in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 604/1
• “?thos” on page 623/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

Portuguese

Noun

ethos m (plural ethos)

1. (aesthetics) ethos (the character or fundamental values of a person, people, culture or movement)

Related terms

• ética
• étnico