Translation
myth
Word origin
From Greek mythos, a word, a speech, and then a story told rather than argued. The Greek term was already set against logos, reasoned account, and that contrast is why the word carries its second, dismissive sense.
- Origin
- Greek
- Root
- mythos
- English cognates
- myth, mythology, mythical
Examples
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The Greek myths tell of gods and heroes.
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Every ancient people had its own myths.
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That we use only ten per cent of the brain is a myth.
One root, and a productive one. gives mita, mythical, mitologio, mythology, and mitologia for anything belonging to it. Nothing irregular.
Where the fence sits against . Legendo at rank 1,811 is a traditional tale told about people, set in a past that could just about have happened: a knight, a saint, a founded city. A sits behind that. It explains rather than reports, its cast is gods and first ancestors, and it belongs to a religion rather than to a memory. Greek stories of the gods are ; the tale of a local hero in the next valley is a .
The second English sense travels intact: something widely believed and false is a in Esperanto too.
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