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mito (uncountable)

  1. Mitochondrial disease.

    • 2015 July 11, Maxine Eichner, “The New Child Abuse Panic”, in New York Times‎[1]:

      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.

Borrowed from Spanish mito.

mito inan

  1. myth

Declension of mito (inanimate, ending in vowel)

  • “mito”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], Euskaltzaindia
  • “mito”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005
  • IPA(key): [ˈmito]
  • Rhymes: -ito
  • Hyphenation: mi‧to

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

mitō

  1. Romanization of 𐌼𐌹𐍄𐍉

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

  • IPA(key): /ˈmi.to/
  • Rhymes: -ito
  • Hyphenation: mì‧to

mito m (plural miti)

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

mito

  1. Rōmaji transcription of みと

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

mito

  1. man

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

  • Rhymes: -itu
  • Hyphenation: mi‧to

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

mito

  1. first-person singular present indicative of mitar

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *myto.

míto n (Cyrillic spelling ми́то)

  1. bribe
  • IPA(key): /ˈmito/ [ˈmi.t̪o]
  • Rhymes: -ito
  • Syllabification: mi‧to

From Latin mythos.

mito m (plural mitos)

  1. myth
    Synonym: fábula

mito m (plural mitos)

  1. long-tailed tit
    Synonym: chamarón

mito

  1. plural of mto