Lore vs Mythos - What's the difference?
lore | mythos |
all the facts and traditions about a particular subject that have been accumulated over time through education or experience.
* Milton
The backstory created around a fictional universe.
(obsolete) workmanship
(anatomy) The region between the eyes and nostrils of birds, reptiles, and amphibians.
(anatomy) The anterior portion of the cheeks of insects.
(obsolete) (lose)
* Spenser
A story or set of stories relevant to or having a significant truth or meaning for a particular culture, religion, society, or other group.
Anything delivered by word of mouth: a word, speech, conversation, or similar; a story, tale, or legend, especially a poetic tale.
A tale, story, or narrative, usually verbally transmitted, or otherwise recorded into the written form from an alleged secondary source.
As nouns the difference between lore and mythos
is that lore is all the facts and traditions about a particular subject that have been accumulated over time through education or experience while mythos is a story or set of stories relevant to or having a significant truth or meaning for a particular culture, religion, society, or other group.As a verb lore
is past tense of lose.lore
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) lore, from (etyl) '', German ''Lehre . See also (l).Noun
- the lore of the Ancient Egyptians
- His fair offspring, nursed in princely lore .
- (Spenser)
Derived terms
* birdlore * booklore * catlore * doglore * faxlore * fishlore * folklore * photocopylore * woodlore * wortlore * xeroxloreEtymology 2
From (etyl)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* loredEtymology 3
Verb
(head)- Neither of them she found where she them lore .
Anagrams
* ----mythos
English
Noun
(en-noun)Usage notes
* An analysis of the comparative frequency of the plural forms mythoi and mythoses in four corpora revealed that in the two of them that had either plural form, (term) was rare and (term) was non-existent.TheBritish National Corpus (BYU–BNC)]: (term) (0) vs. (term) (0)The [http://www.americancorpus.org/ Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA)]: (term) (1) vs. (term) (0)[http://corpus.byu.edu/oed/ BYU–OED: The Oxford English Dictionary]: (term) (4) vs. (term) (0)The [http://corpus.byu.edu/time/ TIME Magazine Corpus of American English]: (term) (0) vs. (term) (0) Moreover, of ten other dictionaries, seven list (term) as the only valid plural,“[http://www.bartleby.com/61/57/M0515700.html mythos]” listed in the American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [4th Ed.]“[http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/mythos mythos]” defined by Dictionary.com Unabridged'“[http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/dictionary/DictionaryResults.aspx?refid=1861632246 mythos]” defined by the Encarta® World English Dictionary [North American Ed.]“[http://www.thefreedictionary.com/mythos mythos]” defined by the '''Free Online Dictionary'''“[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mythos mythos]” defined by '''Merriam–Webster’s Online Dictionary'''“[http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/00320492?single=1&query_type=word&queryword=mythos&first=1&max_to_show=10 mythos, ''n.'']” listed in the '''Oxford English Dictionary''' [draft revision; June 2008]“[http://dictionary.infoplease.com/mythos mythos]” defined by the '''Random House Unabridged Dictionary''', © 1997 Random House, Inc., on Infoplease the other three are tacit regarding the matter,“[http://www.swif.uniba.it/lei/foldop/foldoc.cgi?mythos mythos]” listed in Garth Kemerling’s '''Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names''' [2001]“[http://www.wordsmyth.net/live/home.php?script=search&matchent=mythos&matchtype=exact mythos]” defined by '''Wordsmyth'''“[http://www.yourdictionary.com/mythos mythos” defined by ' YourDictionary.com but none of them mention (term).