different between mythos vs mythic

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

myth +? -ic (1660s), from Latin mythicus.

Pronunciation

• enPR: m?th'?k, IPA^(key): /?m???k/
• Rhymes: -???k

Adjective

mythic (comparative more mythic, superlative most mythic)

1. Mythical; existing in myth.
   • 1998, Chloé Diepenbrock, Gynecology and textuality: popular representations, page 88:

     Whitehead-Gould has become a mythic presence in the case history fairy-tale: the personification of the selfish woman who went back on her promise to deliver up her child to an unfulfilled aspiring mother.

   • 2010, Networks of Design: Proceedings of the 2008 Annual International Conference of the Design History Society, page 161:

     By the mid-nineteenth century tartan had become a mythic material encompassing ideas of nationhood, clanship, and political allegiance seen through increasingly fashionable and spectacular forms.

2. Larger-than-life.

Anagrams

• thymic