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English

Etymology

Shortening.

Noun

mito (uncountable)

  1. Mitochondrial disease.
    • 2015 July 11, Maxine Eichner, “The New Child Abuse Panic”, in New York Times‎:
      Without consulting the girl’s doctor at Tufts, Boston Children’s concluded that the girl’s problem was not mito, but largely psychiatric, according to The Boston Globe.

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Anagrams

Basque

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish mito.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mito/ [mi.t̪o]
  • Rhymes: -ito, -o
  • Hyphenation: mi‧to

Noun

mito inan

  1. myth

Declension

More information indefinite, singular ...
  • mitologia (“mythology”)
  • mitologiko (“mythological”)

Further reading

  • “mito”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
  • “mito”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005
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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmito/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ito
  • Hyphenation: mi‧to

Noun

mito (accusative singular miton, plural mitoj, accusative plural mitojn)

  1. myth (traditional story)
    • 1933, Lidia Zamenhof, Quo vadis?, volume 2, Tyresö: Inko, translation of original by Henryk Sienkiewicz, published 2002, Ĉ. LVIII:
      Dedalo, kiu laŭ aliaj mitoj sukcesis flugi de Kreto Sicilion en la romaj amfiteatroj pereis same kiel Ikaro.
      Daedalus, who according to other myths succeeded in flying from Crete to Sicily, in the Roman amphitheaters perished the same as Icarus.
    • 1984, Marjorie Boulton, Ne nur leteroj de plumamikoj, Tyresö: Inko, published 2000:
      […] originalan miton, kiu ŝuldas ion al la geneza mito pri la edena pomo, sed fandiĝas kun filozofia pli moderna simbolismo pri tempo, vivo, vivociklo kaj morto […]
      […] an original myth, which owes something to the Genesis myth about the Edenic apple, but melded with philosophical, more modern symbolism about time, life, life cycle, and death […]
  2. common false belief, myth
    • 1999 June, Pejno Simono, “Faligas la fundamentojn de esperantismo”, in Monato, page 27:
      Punkton post punkto la aŭtoro pruvas al ni, ke tio, kion ni publike disvastigas, estas aŭ mensogo, aŭ tro naive kredata mito, aŭ konscie lanĉita duonveraĵo, aŭ, plejbonokaze, simple stulta kaj rekte taŭga por forpeli novajn interesiĝantojn.
      Point after point the author proves to us, that that which we publicly disseminate, is either a lie, or a too naively believed myth, or a consciously launched half-truth, or, at best, simply stupid and directly suitable for driving off newbies who are becoming interested.

Derived terms

  • mita (“mythical”, adjective)
  • mitaro (“mythology, mythos”)

Gothic

Romanization

mitō

  1. romanization of 𐌼𐌹𐍄𐍉

Italian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μῦθος (mûthos, “story”).

Pronunciation

Noun

mito m (plural miti)

  1. myth

Further reading

  • mito in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

Japanese

Romanization

mito

  1. Rōmaji transcription of みと

Latin

Etymology

    From Proto-Italic *meitō.

    Verb

    mītō (third-person singular present active indicative mītāt); third conjugation

    1. Old Latin form of mittō
      • 7th–5th century BCE, Duenos inscription:
        𐌉𐌏𐌖𐌄𐌔𐌀𐌕𐌃𐌄𐌉𐌖𐌏𐌔𐌒𐌏𐌉𐌌𐌄𐌃𐌌𐌉𐌕𐌀𐌕𐌍𐌄𐌉𐌕𐌄𐌃𐌄𐌍𐌃𐌏𐌂𐌏𐌔𐌌𐌉𐌔𐌖𐌉𐌓𐌂𐌏𐌔𐌉𐌄𐌃
        𐌀𐌔𐌕𐌄𐌃𐌍𐌏𐌉𐌔𐌉𐌏𐌐𐌄𐌕𐌏𐌉𐌕𐌄𐌔𐌉𐌀𐌉𐌐𐌀𐌊𐌀𐌓𐌉𐌖𐌏𐌉𐌔
        𐌃𐌖𐌄𐌍𐌏𐌔𐌌𐌄𐌃𐌅𐌄𐌂𐌄𐌃𐌄𐌍𐌌𐌀𐌍𐌏𐌌𐌄𐌉𐌍𐌏𐌌𐌃𐌖𐌄𐌍𐌏𐌉𐌍𐌄𐌌𐌄𐌃𐌌𐌀𐌋𐌏𐌔𐌕𐌀𐌕𐌏𐌃
        [Iovesāt deivōs qoi mēd mītāt, nei tēd endō cosmis vircō siēd.
        Ast (t)ēd noisi op(p)etoit esiāi pākā rīvois.
        Duenos mēd fēced en mānōm (m)einom duenōi; nē mēd malos (s)tatōd.]
        IOVESATDEIVOSQOIMEDMITATNEITEDENDOCOSMISVIRCOSIED
        ASTEDNOISIOPETOITESIAIPAKARIVOIS
        DVENOSMEDFECEDENMANOMEINOMDVENOINEMEDMALOSTATOD
        The person who sends me prays to the gods, lest the girl be not kind towards thee.
        Without thee […] calm with [these] rivers.
        A good man made me (in good intention?) for a good man; may I not be stolen by an evil man.
      • 6th century BCE, Tibur pedestal inscription (CIL I2 2658):
        𐌇𐌏𐌉𐌌𐌄𐌃𐌌𐌉𐌕𐌀𐌕𐌊𐌀𐌖𐌉𐌏𐌔[…]𐌌𐌏𐌍𐌉𐌏𐌔𐌒𐌄𐌕𐌉𐌏𐌔𐌃[𐌏]𐌍𐌏𐌌𐌐𐌓𐌏𐌅𐌉𐌋𐌄𐌏𐌃
        [Hoi mēd mītāt Kāvios […]monios Qetios, d[ō]nom prō fīleōd.]
        HOIMEDMITATKAVIOS[…]MONIOSQETIOSD[O]NOMPROFILEOD
        Gavius […]monius Cetius places me here [as] a gift on behalf of [his] son.

    Descendants

    • Latin: mittō
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    Mogum

    Noun

    mito

    1. man

    References

    Portuguese

    Etymology 1

    Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek μῦθος (mûthos, “word, humour, companion, speech, account, rumour, fable”).

    Alternative forms

    Pronunciation

    • Rhymes: -itu
    • Hyphenation: mi‧to

    Noun

    mito m (plural mitos)

    1. myth
      1. traditional story
        Synonyms: conto, fábula, legenda, lenda
      2. commonly-held but false belief
        Synonyms: abusão, crença, crendice, superstição
      4. (figuratively, informal) person or thing held in excessive or quasi-religious awe, legend
        Synonyms: fenómeno, lenda
    Derived terms

    Etymology 2

    Verb

    mito

    1. first-person singular present indicative of mitar

    Further reading

    Serbo-Croatian

    Etymology

    Inherited from Proto-Slavic *myto.

    Noun

    míto n (Cyrillic spelling ми́то)

    1. bribe

    Declension

    More information singular, plural ...

    Spanish

    Pronunciation

    Etymology 1

    From Latin mythos.

    Noun

    mito m (plural mitos)

    1. myth
      Synonym: fábula

    See also

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    mito m (plural mitos)

    1. long-tailed tit
      Synonym: chamarón

    Further reading

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    Swahili

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    mito

    1. plural of mto

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