Where does “mythologie” come from?
mythologie (Middle French) comes from Latin mythologia, from Ancient Greek μυθολογία, from Ancient Greek μυθολογέω, from Ancient Greek -λόγος, from Ancient Greek -ός, from Proto-Hellenic *-os, from Proto-Indo-European -ós — Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...
Ancestry of “mythologie”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | mythologia | mythology |
| 2 | Ancient Greek | μυθολογία | romance, fiction, legend; story-telling |
| 3 | Ancient Greek | μυθολογέω | I tell tales |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | -λόγος | word, speech; one who speaks; word, knowledge,... |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | -ός | Forms agentive or patientive adjectives and nouns from the o-grade of a verbal root |
| 6 | Proto-Hellenic | *-os | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -ós | Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting... |
Words derived from “mythologie”
- mythology
- mythological
- mythologically
- nonmythological
- semimythological
- unmythological
- geomythology
- pseudomythological
- mythologian
- mythologie
- mythologie
- mytharc
- pseudomythology
- xenomythology
- astromythology
- neomythology
- neuromythology
- theomythology
- میتولوژی
- میتولوژی
- geomythological
- sociomythological
- mythologisch
- neomythological