mito

See also: Mito

English

Etymology

Shortening.

Noun

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.

References

• Mitochondrial disease on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• omit

Basque

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish mito.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

mito inan

1. myth

Declension

Declension of mito (inan V-stem)

	indefinite	singular	plural	proximal plural
absolutive	mito	mitoa	mitoak	mitook
ergative	mitok	mitoak	mitoek	mitook
dative	mitori	mitoari	mitoei	mitooi
genitive	mitoren	mitoaren	mitoen	mitoon
comitative	mitorekin	mitoarekin	mitoekin	mitookin
causative	mitorengatik	mitoarengatik	mitoengatik	mitoongatik
benefactive	mitorentzat	mitoarentzat	mitoentzat	mitoontzat
instrumental	mitoz	mitoaz	mitoez	mitootaz
innesive	mitotan	mitoan	mitoetan	mitootan
locative	mitotako	mitoko	mitoetako	mitootako
allative	mitotara	mitora	mitoetara	mitootara
terminative	mitotaraino	mitoraino	mitoetaraino	mitootaraino
directive	mitotarantz	mitorantz	mitoetarantz	mitootarantz
destinative	mitotarako	mitorako	mitoetarako	mitootarako
ablative	mitotatik	mitotik	mitoetatik	mitootatik
partitive	mitorik	—	—	—
prolative	mitotzat	—	—	—

Related terms

• mitologia (“mythology”)
• mitologiko (“mythological”)

Further reading

• “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

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmito/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ito
• Syllabification: 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

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

• Audio:

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Noun

mito m (plural miti)

1. myth

Related terms

• mitico
• mitologia
• mitologico

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• moti, timo, tomi

Japanese

Romanization

mito

1. Rōmaji transcription of みと

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *meitō.

Verb

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

1. Old Latin form of mittō
   • 7th–5th century BCE, Duenos inscription:

     𐌉𐌏𐌖𐌄𐌔𐌀𐌕𐌃𐌄𐌉𐌖𐌏𐌔𐌒𐌏𐌉𐌌𐌄𐌃𐌌𐌉𐌕𐌀𐌕𐌍𐌄𐌉𐌕𐌄𐌃𐌄𐌍𐌃𐌏𐌂𐌏𐌔𐌌𐌉𐌔𐌖𐌉𐌓𐌂𐌏𐌔𐌉𐌄𐌃
     𐌀𐌔𐌕𐌄𐌃𐌍𐌏𐌉𐌔𐌉𐌏𐌐𐌄𐌕𐌏𐌉𐌕𐌄𐌔𐌉𐌀𐌉𐌐𐌀𐌊𐌀𐌓𐌉𐌖𐌏𐌉𐌔
     𐌃𐌖𐌄𐌍𐌏𐌔𐌌𐌄𐌃𐌅𐌄𐌂𐌄𐌃𐌄𐌍𐌌𐌀𐌍𐌏𐌌𐌄𐌉𐌍𐌏𐌌𐌃𐌖𐌄𐌍𐌏𐌉𐌍𐌄𐌌𐌄𐌃𐌌𐌀𐌋𐌏𐌔𐌕𐌀𐌕𐌏𐌃

     [Iovesāt deivōs qoi mēd mītāt, nei tēd endō cosmis vircō siēd.
     Ast (t)ēd noisi op(p)etoit esiāi pākā rīvois.
     Duenos mēd fēced en mānōm (m)einom duenōi; nē mēd malos (s)tatōd.]

     IOVESATDEIVOSQOIMEDMITATNEITEDENDOCOSMISVIRCOSIED
     ASTEDNOISIOPETOITESIAIPAKARIVOIS
     DVENOSMEDFECEDENMANOMEINOMDVENOINEMEDMALOSTATOD

     The person who sends me prays to the gods, lest the girl be not kind towards thee.
     Without thee […] calm with [these] rivers.
     A good man made me (in good intention?) for a good man; may I not be stolen by an evil man.

   • 6th century BCE, Tibur pedestal inscription (CIL I² 2658):

     𐌇𐌏𐌉𐌌𐌄𐌃𐌌𐌉𐌕𐌀𐌕𐌊𐌀𐌖𐌉𐌏𐌔[…]𐌌𐌏𐌍𐌉𐌏𐌔𐌒𐌄𐌕𐌉𐌏𐌔𐌃[𐌏]𐌍𐌏𐌌𐌐𐌓𐌏𐌅𐌉𐌋𐌄𐌏𐌃

     [Hoi mēd mītāt Kāvios […]monios Qetios, d[ō]nom prō fīleōd.]

     HOIMEDMITATKAVIOS[…]MONIOSQETIOSD[O]NOMPROFILEOD

     Gavius […]monius Cetius places me here [as] a gift on behalf of [his] son.

Descendants

• Latin: mittō

Mogum

Noun

mito

1. man

References

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

Portuguese

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

• mytho (obsolete)

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.tu/

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

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈmi.tu/

• 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

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

      Synonyms: fenómeno, lenda

Derived terms

• mito da caverna
• mitar (colloquial)
• Mito

Related terms

• antimito
• mitar
• mítico
• mitificação
• mitificado
• mitificar
• mitografia
• mitográfico
• mitógrafo
• mitologia
• mitológico
• mitomania
• mitômano

Etymology 2

Verb

mito

1. first-person singular present indicative of mitar

Further reading

• “mito”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “mito”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

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/ [ˈmi.t̪o]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -ito
• Syllabification: mi‧to

Etymology 1

From Latin mythos.

Noun

mito m (plural mitos)

1. myth

   Synonym: fábula

Related terms

• mítico (adjective)
• mitología f

See also

• leyenda f

Etymology 2

Noun

mito m (plural mitos)

1. long-tailed tit

   Synonym: chamarón

Further reading

• “mito”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Swahili

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya):

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Noun

mito

1. plural of mto