English

Proper noun

Mito ‎(uncountable)

1. capital city of Ibaraki prefecture, Japan.

Translations

Anagrams

• omit

English

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.

Esperanto

Noun

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

1. myth (traditional story)
   • 1933, Zamenhof, Lidia, 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, Boulton, Marjorie, 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 publically 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”)
• mitaro ‎(“mythology, mythos”)

Gothic

Romanization

mitō

1. Romanization of 𐌼𐌹𐍄𐍉

Italian

Etymology

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

Noun

mito m ‎(plural miti)

1. myth

Related terms

• mitologia
• mitologico

Anagrams

• moti
• timo
• tomi

Japanese

Romanization

mito

1. rōmaji reading of みと

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• mytho (obsolete)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmi.tu/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.to/

Noun

mito m (plural mitos)

1. myth (traditional story)
2. myth (commonly-held but false belief)
3. myth (person or thing held in excessive or quasi-religious awe)

Synonyms

• (traditional story): conto, fábula, lenda, legenda
• (false belief): abusão, crença, crendice, superstição
• (person held in awe): fenómeno, lenda

Derived terms

• mito da caverna

Related terms

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *myto.

Noun

míto n ‎(Cyrillic spelling ми́то)

1. bribe

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin mythos.

Noun

mito m ‎(plural mitos)

1. myth

Related terms

• mítico adj
• mitología f

See also

• leyenda f

Swahili

Noun

mito

1. plural of mto