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 Translation for 'Thanatos' from English to Greek
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NOUN   Thanatos | -
SYNO death instinct | death wish | Thanatos
μυθολ.
Thanatos {noun}
Θάνατος {ο}
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Translation for 'Thanatos' from English to Greek

Thanatos {noun}
Θάνατος {ο}μυθολ.
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Usage Examples English
  • Thanos's name is a shortened form of the root word "thanatos", the Greek word for death.
  • The name derives from "a-" ("without") + "thanatos" ("death").
  • Repetitive music has often been negatively linked with Freudian thanatos.
  • Freud also believed that we had two opposing basic instincts—life (eros) and death (thanatos)—and all instincts sought tension reduction.
  • In the fantasy, semi-abstract world of Ballard and Cronenberg, the vectors of "thanatos" and "eros" coincide in a single act of intercourse through man-made technology.

  • "Thanatopsis" is an early poem by the American poet William Cullen Bryant. Meaning 'a consideration of death', the word is derived from the Greek 'thanatos' (death) and 'opsis' (view, sight).
  • The Thanatos Painter (5th century BCE) was an Athenian Ancient Greek vase painter who painted scenes of death on white-ground cylindrical lekythoi.
  • The Thanatos Painter is a lekythoi painter from Athens, Greece in the 5th century BCE.
  • Eros which is life instinct and thanatos which is death instinct.
  • "Nebulosa thanatos" is a moth of the family Notodontidae. It is found in Peru and Bolivia.

  • In the sixth chapter, Freud reviews the development of his concept of libido to explain why it must now be separated into two distinct instincts: the object-instinct of eros and the ego-instinct of thanatos.
  • Thanatocoenosis (from Greek language "thanatos" - death and "koinos" - common) are all the embedded fossils at a single discovery site.
  • "Athanasia" is native to southern Africa. The name is derived from the Greek a-, 'without', and thanatos 'death', alluding to the persistent dry involucral bracts.
  • "O thanatos tou voskou"-"The shepherd's death", "Evrikomi") and by early romanticism ("I trelli mana"-"The mad mother").
  • The etymology of the term is from the Greek language: δυσ, "dus"; "bad, difficult" + θάνατος, "thanatos"; "death".

  • Parthanatos (derived from the Greek Θάνατος, "Death") is a form of programmed cell death that is distinct from other cell death processes such as necrosis and apoptosis.
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