different between mythos vs philosophy

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

Alternative forms

• philosophie (obsolete)
• phylosophie (obsolete)
• phylosophy (nonstandard)

Etymology

From Middle English philosophie, Old French philosophie, and their source, Latin philosophia, from Ancient Greek ????????? (philosophía), from ????? (phílos, “loving”) + ????? (sophía, “wisdom”). Synchronically, philo- +? -sophy. Displaced native Old English ?þwitegung.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /f??l?s?fi/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /f??l?s?fi/

Noun

philosophy (countable and uncountable, plural philosophies)

1. (uncountable, originally) The love of wisdom.
2. (uncountable) An academic discipline that seeks truth through reasoning rather than empiricism.
   • 1661, John Fell, The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond

     During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant […]

3. (countable) A comprehensive system of belief.
4. (countable) A view or outlook regarding fundamental principles underlying some domain.

5. (countable) A general principle (usually moral).
6. (archaic) A broader branch of (non-applied) science.
7. A calm and thoughtful demeanor; calmness of temper.
8. (printing, dated) Synonym of small pica (especially in French printing).
   • 2010, Thomas Wharton, Salamander, Emblem Editions (?ISBN)

     Although I prefer small pica. Or as its^[sic] sometimes known, philosophy.

     – Small pica, or philosophy, she said. It sounds like the title of a novel. With a girl heroine.

Meronyms

• See also Thesaurus:philosophy

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

philosophy (third-person singular simple present philosophies, present participle philosophying, simple past and past participle philosophied)

1. (now rare) To philosophize.

See also

• Appendix:Glossary of philosophical isms
• ideology

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “philosophy”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
• “philosophy” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

Further reading

• "philosophy" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 235.