mythusn.

Brit.

/ˈmʌɪθəs/,

/ˈmɪθəs/, U.S.

/ˈmɪθəs/,

/ˈmaɪθəs/

Inflections: Plural mythi Brit.

/ˈmʌɪθʌɪ/,

/ˈmɪθʌɪ/, U.S.

/ˈmaɪθaɪ/,

/ˈmɪθaɪ/, mythuses.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin mȳthus, mȳthos.

Etymology: < classical Latin mȳthus or mȳthos myth, fable (recorded in a 2nd-cent. epitome of a 1st-cent. grammarian; earlier as a Greek word in Varro) < ancient Greek μῦθος mythos n. Compare earlier mythos n. and slightly later myth n.In classical Latin the word is only attested in the ablative plural mȳthīs; in post-classical Latin the nominative singular form mythos is recorded (5th cent.). Compare German Mythos, Mythus (early 19th cent.). N.E.D. (1908) gives only the pronunciation (məi·þɒ̆s) /ˈmaɪθəs/.

= myth n. 1a. Also: myths collectively; a mythology. Cf. mythos n.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > mythology > [noun] > a mythical story or myth

fablea1400

mythologica1631

mythos1753

mythologue1792

mythus1825

myth1830

mythology1873

mythologem1884

1825 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1836) II. 335 This the most venerable, and perhaps the most ancient, of Grecian mythi, is a philosopheme.

1841 R. C. Trench Notes Parables 4 The Parable is different from the Mythus, inasmuch as in the Mythus, the truth and that which is only the vehicle of the truth are wholly blended together.

1850 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis II. xxiii. 237 Conscience! What is conscience?.. What is public or private faith? Mythuses alike enveloped in enormous tradition.

1892 Athenæum 24 Sept. 410/3 They consist of mythus and tradition intermingled and intertangled.

1931 A. S. Warthin (title) The physician of the dance of death: a historical study of the evolution of the dance of death mythus in art.

1973 Times Lit. Suppl. 20 July 822/4 He does not wish to distinguish any particular passages of fraud or deception, but merely different types or gradations of myth; what is at work in the production of the Gospel mythi is no private or personal fancy.

1982 19th-cent. Fiction 36 476 Carlyle..provided a model for vision, devotion to heroic ideals, and the will to implement a new ‘mythus’ based in reality.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mythus
释义	mythusn. Brit. /ˈmʌɪθəs/, /ˈmɪθəs/, U.S. /ˈmɪθəs/, /ˈmaɪθəs/ Inflections: Plural mythi Brit. /ˈmʌɪθʌɪ/, /ˈmɪθʌɪ/, U.S. /ˈmaɪθaɪ/, /ˈmɪθaɪ/, mythuses. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin mȳthus, mȳthos. Etymology: < classical Latin mȳthus or mȳthos myth, fable (recorded in a 2nd-cent. epitome of a 1st-cent. grammarian; earlier as a Greek word in Varro) < ancient Greek μῦθος mythos n. Compare earlier mythos n. and slightly later myth n.In classical Latin the word is only attested in the ablative plural mȳthīs; in post-classical Latin the nominative singular form mythos is recorded (5th cent.). Compare German Mythos, Mythus (early 19th cent.). N.E.D. (1908) gives only the pronunciation (məi·þɒ̆s) /ˈmaɪθəs/. = myth n. 1a. Also: myths collectively; a mythology. Cf. mythos n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > mythology > [noun] > a mythical story or myth fablea1400 mythologica1631 mythos1753 mythologue1792 mythus1825 myth1830 mythology1873 mythologem1884 1825 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1836) II. 335 This the most venerable, and perhaps the most ancient, of Grecian mythi, is a philosopheme. 1841 R. C. Trench Notes Parables 4 The Parable is different from the Mythus, inasmuch as in the Mythus, the truth and that which is only the vehicle of the truth are wholly blended together. 1850 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis II. xxiii. 237 Conscience! What is conscience?.. What is public or private faith? Mythuses alike enveloped in enormous tradition. 1892 Athenæum 24 Sept. 410/3 They consist of mythus and tradition intermingled and intertangled. 1931 A. S. Warthin (title) The physician of the dance of death: a historical study of the evolution of the dance of death mythus in art. 1973 Times Lit. Suppl. 20 July 822/4 He does not wish to distinguish any particular passages of fraud or deception, but merely different types or gradations of myth; what is at work in the production of the Gospel mythi is no private or personal fancy. 1982 19th-cent. Fiction 36 476 Carlyle..provided a model for vision, devotion to heroic ideals, and the will to implement a new ‘mythus’ based in reality. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1825
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