mito

Shortening.

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.

• Mitochondrial disease on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• omit

Borrowed from Spanish mito.

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

mito inan

1. myth

• “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

• IPA^(key): /ˈmito/

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• 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.

mitō

1. romanization of 𐌼𐌹𐍄𐍉

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

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

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mito m (plural miti)

1. myth

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

• moti, timo, tomi

mito

1. Rōmaji transcription of みと

From Proto-Italic *meitō.

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

1. Old 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

• Latin: mittō

mito

1. man

• Association pour la Promotion de la Langue Mogum, 2012, Usunoŋten nasarawe 1. Transition de mogoum en français.

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

• mytho (obsolete)

• 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

   4. (figuratively, informal) person or thing held in excessive or quasi-religious awe, legend

      Synonyms: fenómeno, lenda

• mito da caverna
• mitar (colloquial)
• Mito

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]

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• 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”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

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mito

1. plural of mto