"mythos" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈmɪθɒs/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈmʌɪ-/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈmɪθoʊs/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-mythos.wav [Southern-England] Forms: mythoi [plural], mythoses [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin mȳthos (“myth”), from Ancient Greek μῦθος (mûthos, “report, tale, story”). Doublet of myth. The plural form mythoi is from Ancient Greek μῦθοι (mûthoi), and the form mythoses from mythos + -es. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|LL.|mȳthos||myth}} Late Latin mȳthos (“myth”), {{der|en|grc|μῦθος||report, tale, story}} Ancient Greek μῦθος (mûthos, “report, tale, story”), {{doublet|en|myth}} Doublet of myth, {{der|en|grc|μῦθοι}} Ancient Greek μῦθοι (mûthoi), {{suffix|en||es|nocat=1}} + -es Head templates: {{en-noun|~|mythoi|+}} mythos (countable and uncountable, plural mythoi or mythoses)
  1. Anything transmitted by word of mouth, such as a fable, legend, narrative, story, or tale (especially a poetic tale). Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (anything transmitted by word of mouth): Mythos [masculine] (German), mȋtos [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian)
    Sense id: en-mythos-en-noun-FPXqUthk Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 47 32 12 9 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 49 29 10 12 Disambiguation of 'anything transmitted by word of mouth': 86 9 3 2
  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. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (story or set or stories relevant to a particular culture or some other group): mytologi [common-gender] (Danish), mito [masculine] (Galician), Mythos [masculine] (German), mȋtos [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian)
    Sense id: en-mythos-en-noun-eo05Xugc Disambiguation of 'story or set or stories relevant to a particular culture or some other group': 8 82 5 5
  3. (by extension) A set of assumptions or beliefs about something. Tags: broadly, countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-mythos-en-noun-BLxbzShI
  4. (literature) A recurring theme; a motif. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Literature
    Sense id: en-mythos-en-noun-Oh-3-Y-M Topics: literature, media, publishing
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: mythus

Noun [French]

IPA: /mi.to/
Head templates: {{head|fr|noun form|g=m}} mythos m
  1. plural of mytho Tags: form-of, masculine, plural Form of: mytho
    Sense id: en-mythos-fr-noun-WoDbtnil Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header

Noun [Latin]

IPA: /ˈmyː.tʰos/ [Classical], [ˈmyːt̪ʰɔs̠] [Classical], /ˈmi.tos/ (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical), [ˈmiːt̪os] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μῦθος (mûthos). Etymology templates: {{bor|la|grc|μῦθος}} Ancient Greek μῦθος (mûthos) Head templates: {{la-noun|mȳthos<2>}} mȳthos m (genitive mȳthī); second declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|mȳthos<2>}} Forms: mȳthos [canonical, masculine], mȳthī [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], mȳthos [nominative, singular], mȳthī [nominative, plural], mȳthī [genitive, singular], mȳthōrum [genitive, plural], mȳthō [dative, singular], mȳthīs [dative, plural], mȳthon [accusative, singular], mȳthōs [accusative, plural], mȳthō [ablative, singular], mȳthīs [ablative, plural], mȳthe [singular, vocative], mȳthī [plural, vocative]
  1. a myth Tags: declension-2 Categories (topical): Mythology Synonyms (myth): fabula Related terms: mȳthicus, mȳthistoria, mȳthistoricus, mȳthologicus

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2011, Bob Alexander, ““We buried him on the side of a road””, in Rawhide Ranger, Ira Aten: Enforcing Law on the Texas Frontier, University of North Texas Press, page 25",
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          "ref": "2017 October 27, Alex McLevy, “Making a Killing: The Brief Life and Bloody Death of the Post-Scream Slasher Revival”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2018-03-05",
          "text": "Hollywood studios had largely stopped producing the horror subgenre, save for the odd hybrid vehicle (the sci-fi slasher of Species, the cartoonish evil of Leprechaun), and the iconic killers of the ’80s—Freddy [Krueger], Jason [Voorhees], Michael Myers—had either devolved into needlessly complex mythos or unintentional self-parody, and sometimes both.",
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          "text": "Of all the stories that fuel conflict, none affects you more than your mythos of identity—the core narrative that shapes how you see your identity in relation to that of the other side. In a conflict, you are likely to regard yourself as the victim and the other as the villain. You fill in the details of this mythos with personal grievances and accusations. Of course, the other side also sees the conflict through a mythos—and in theirs they are the victim. Unless you transform the fundamental way you relate to each other—your mythos—your conflict will remain.",
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          "text": "To get most benefit from the four mythoi, one must avoid making two errors. First, a work embodying the comic mythos may be called comic but should not be confused with comedy since the latter term has too many meanings that are exclusively dramatic. The same stricture applies to tragedy and the tragic mythos. The second error is to assume that a work embodying the ironic mythos is an anti-romance.",
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          "text": "Hollywood studios had largely stopped producing the horror subgenre, save for the odd hybrid vehicle (the sci-fi slasher of Species, the cartoonish evil of Leprechaun), and the iconic killers of the ’80s—Freddy [Krueger], Jason [Voorhees], Michael Myers—had either devolved into needlessly complex mythos or unintentional self-parody, and sometimes both.",
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