English → Latin
“mythology” in Latin
The English word mythology itself goes back to Latin mȳthologia.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
mythology
*mythologia (grammatical); fabulae de diis deabusque; also simply fabulae; fabulae fictae; (as a science) historia fabularis (Suet., Tib., 70).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for mythology?
- The usual Latin words for “mythology” are mȳthologia, fābula. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.