Ζωή
See also: ζωή
Ancient Greek edit
Etymology edit
From ζωή (zōḗ), fashioned as a personal name after Hebrew חַוָּה (ḥawwā, “Eve”).
Pronunciation edit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /zdɔː.ɛ̌ː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /zoˈe̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /zoˈi/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /zoˈi/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /zoˈi/
Proper noun edit
Ζωή • (Zōḗ) f (genitive Ζωῆς); first declension
Inflection edit
Descendants edit
- → Aragonese: Zoya
- → Breton: Zoe
- → Bulgarian: Зоя (Zoja)
- → Catalan: Zoe
- → Chinese: 佐伊 (Zuǒyī)
- → Czech: Zoja, Zoe
- → Danish: Zoe
- → Dutch: Zoë
- → English: Zoe, Zoë, Zoey
- → Finnish: Zoe
- → French: Zoé, Zoë
- → Galician: Zoe
- → German: Zoe
- Greek: Ζωή (Zoḯ)
- → Italian: Zoe
- → Korean: 조에 (Jo'e)
- → Latin: Zōē
- → Latvian: Zoja
- → Norwegian: Zoë
- → Persian: زوئه (zo'e)
- → Polish: Zoja, Zoe
- → Portuguese: Zoé
- → Romanian: Zoe
- → Serbo-Croatian: Zoja
- → Slovak: Zoja
- → Slovene: Zoja
- → Spanish: Zoe
- → Swedish: Zoë
- → Russian: Зо́я (Zója)
- → Turkish: Zoe
- → Ukrainian: Зо́я (Zója)
Greek edit
Proper noun edit
- a female given name, the Greek form of Zoë, Zoe