The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromμῦθος“report, tale, story”
- Late Latin · borrowed frommȳthos“myth”
- Late Latin · derived frommythus
- English todaymythus
Borrowed from Late Latin mythus, from Late Latin mȳthos (“myth”), from Ancient Greek μῦθος (mûthos, “report, tale, story”).
Words from the same roots
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.