Ζεύς
See also: Ζευς
Ancient GreekEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- Δάν (Dán) – Aeolic
- Δεύς (Deús) – Boeotian
- Ζάς (Zás) – Laconian
- Ζάν (Zán), Ζάς (Zás) – Doric
- Ζήν (Zḗn) – poetic
- Θιός (Thiós), Σιός (Siós) – Boeotian, Ionic
- Τάν (Tán) – Cretan
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Hellenic *dzéus, related to Mycenaean Greek 𐀇𐀺 (di-wo /diwos/); from Proto-Indo-European *dyḗws. Cognate with Sanskrit द्यु (dyú), Portuguese deus, Latin Iovis (and *Iu- in Iuppiter), Old English Tīw, Hittite 𒅆𒍑 (sius).
PronunciationEdit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /zděu̯s/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /zews/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /zeɸs/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /zefs/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /zefs/
Proper nounEdit
Ζεύς • (Zeús) m (genitive Διός); third declension
- (Greek mythology) Zeus
- Παῦε λέγων, μὰ τὸν Δία
- Paûe légōn, mà tòn Día
- Stop talking, by Zeus
- a name of the emperors of Rome
- referring to other gods, such as Amun, Baal, Ahura Mazda
- (with καταχθόνιος (katakhthónios) or χθόνιος (khthónios)) = Hades
InflectionEdit
Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ Ζεύς ho Zeús | ||||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ Δῐός / Ζηνός toû Diós / Zēnós | ||||||||||||
Dative | τῷ Δῐῐ́ / Ζηνῐ́ tôi Dií / Zēní | ||||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν Δῐ́ᾰ / Ζῆνᾰ tòn Día / Zêna | ||||||||||||
Vocative | Ζεῦ Zeû | ||||||||||||
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HypernymsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- → Old Armenian: Զեւս (Zews)
- Armenian: Զևս (Zews)
- → Classical Syriac: ܙܘܣ (zews)
- → Coptic: ⲍⲉⲩⲥ (zeus)
- → English: Zeus
- Georgian: ზევსი (zevsi)
- Greek: Ζευς (Zefs), Δίας (Días)
- → Latin: Zeus
- → Old Church Slavonic: Ꙁеѵсъ (Zeüsŭ)
- → Russian: Зевс (Zevs)
- → Messapic: 𐌆𐌉𐌑 (zis)
Further readingEdit
- “Ζεύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Ζεύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Ζεύς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “Ζεύς”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G2203 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,029
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[2], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- Smyth, Herbert Weir (1920), “Part II: Inflection”, in A Greek grammar for colleges, Cambridge: American Book Company, § 285
- http://opsopaus.com/OM/BA/Plethon/Zeus.html