mito

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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.

References

Anagrams

Basque

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish mito.

Pronunciation

Noun

mito inan

  1. myth

Declension

Declension of mito (inanimate, ending in vowel)
indefinite singular plural
absolutive mito mitoa mitoak
ergative mitok mitoak mitoek
dative mitori mitoari mitoei
genitive mitoren mitoaren mitoen
comitative mitorekin mitoarekin mitoekin
causative mitorengatik mitoarengatik mitoengatik
benefactive mitorentzat mitoarentzat mitoentzat
instrumental mitoz mitoaz mitoez
inessive mitotan mitoan mitoetan
locative mitotako mitoko mitoetako
allative mitotara mitora mitoetara
terminative mitotaraino mitoraino mitoetaraino
directive mitotarantz mitorantz mitoetarantz
destinative mitotarako mitorako mitoetarako
ablative mitotatik mitotik mitoetatik
partitive mitorik — —
prolative mitotzat — —

Related terms

Further reading

  • "mito" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia , euskaltzaindia.eus
  • “mito” in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia , euskaltzaindia.eus

Esperanto

Pronunciation

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  • 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

Related terms

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

Verb

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

  1. Early Latin form of mittō
    • 7th–5th century BC, Duenos inscription:
      𐌉𐌏𐌖𐌄𐌔𐌀𐌕𐌃𐌄𐌉𐌖𐌏𐌔𐌒𐌏𐌉𐌌𐌄𐌃𐌌𐌉𐌕𐌀𐌕𐌍𐌄𐌉𐌕𐌄𐌃𐌄𐌍𐌃𐌏𐌂𐌏𐌔𐌌𐌉𐌔𐌖𐌉𐌓𐌂𐌏𐌔𐌉𐌄𐌃
      IOVESATDEIVOSQOIMEDMITATNEITEDENDOCOSMISVIRCOSIED
      iouesāt deivos qoi mēd mītāt, nei tēd endō cosmis vircō siēd
      The person who sends me prays to the gods, lest the girl be not kind towards thee

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
    3. (figuratively, informal) person or thing held in excessive or quasi-religious awe, legend
      Synonyms: fenómeno, lenda
Derived terms
Related terms

Etymology 2

Verb

mito

  1. first-person singular present indicative of mitar

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *myto.

Noun

míto n (Cyrillic spelling ми́то)

  1. bribe

Declension

Declension of mito
singular plural
nominative mito mita
genitive mita mita
dative mitu mitima
accusative mito mita
vocative mito mita
locative mitu mitima
instrumental mitom mitima

Spanish

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From Latin mythos.

Noun

mito m (plural mitos)

  1. myth
Related terms

See also

Etymology 2

Noun

mito m (plural mitos)

  1. long-tailed tit

Further reading

Swahili

Pronunciation

Noun

mito

  1. plural of mto
Wikious
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