ζυγωτός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ζυγόω (zugóō) +‎ -τός (-tós).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /zdy.ɡɔː.tós/ → /zy.ɣoˈtos/ → /zi.ɣoˈtos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /zdy.ɡɔː.tós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /zy.ɡoˈtos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /zy.ɣoˈtos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /zy.ɣoˈtos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /zi.ɣoˈtos/

Adjective

ζῠγωτός • (zugōtós) m (feminine ζῠγωτή, neuter ζῠγωτόν); first/second declension

1. yoked

Declension

First and second declension of ζῠγωτός; ζῠγωτή; ζῠγωτόν (Attic)

Number		Singular				Dual				Plural
Case/Gender		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative		ζῠγωτός zugōtós	ζῠγωτή zugōtḗ	ζῠγωτόν zugōtón		ζῠγωτώ zugōtṓ	ζῠγωτᾱ́ zugōtā́	ζῠγωτώ zugōtṓ		ζῠγωτοί zugōtoí	ζῠγωταί zugōtaí	ζῠγωτᾰ́ zugōtá
Genitive		ζῠγωτοῦ zugōtoû	ζῠγωτῆς zugōtês	ζῠγωτοῦ zugōtoû		ζῠγωτοῖν zugōtoîn	ζῠγωταῖν zugōtaîn	ζῠγωτοῖν zugōtoîn		ζῠγωτῶν zugōtôn	ζῠγωτῶν zugōtôn	ζῠγωτῶν zugōtôn
Dative		ζῠγωτῷ zugōtôi	ζῠγωτῇ zugōtêi	ζῠγωτῷ zugōtôi		ζῠγωτοῖν zugōtoîn	ζῠγωταῖν zugōtaîn	ζῠγωτοῖν zugōtoîn		ζῠγωτοῖς zugōtoîs	ζῠγωταῖς zugōtaîs	ζῠγωτοῖς zugōtoîs
Accusative		ζῠγωτόν zugōtón	ζῠγωτήν zugōtḗn	ζῠγωτόν zugōtón		ζῠγωτώ zugōtṓ	ζῠγωτᾱ́ zugōtā́	ζῠγωτώ zugōtṓ		ζῠγωτούς zugōtoús	ζῠγωτᾱ́ς zugōtā́s	ζῠγωτᾰ́ zugōtá
Vocative		ζῠγωτέ zugōté	ζῠγωτή zugōtḗ	ζῠγωτόν zugōtón		ζῠγωτώ zugōtṓ	ζῠγωτᾱ́ zugōtā́	ζῠγωτώ zugōtṓ		ζῠγωτοί zugōtoí	ζῠγωταί zugōtaí	ζῠγωτᾰ́ zugōtá
Derived forms		Adverb				Comparative				Superlative
		ζῠγωτῶς zugōtôs				ζῠγωτότερος zugōtóteros				ζῠγωτότᾰτος zugōtótatos
Notes:		This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Descendants

• Greek: ζυγωτό (zygotó)
• → Catalan: zigot
• → Czech: zygota
• → Danish: zygote
• → English: zygote
  • → Irish: siogót
  • → Malay: zigot
• → Estonian: sügoot
• → Finnish: tsygootti
• → French: zygote
  • → Romanian: zigot
  • → Turkish: zigot
• → Hebrew: זִיגוֹטָה (zigóta)
• → Hungarian: zigóta
• → Icelandic: okfruma (partial calque)
• → Ido: zigoto
• → Italian: zigote
• → Polish: zygota
• → Portuguese: zigoto
• → Russian: зиго́та (zigóta)
• → Serbo-Croatian: zigòta
• → Spanish: cigoto, zigoto
• → Swedish: zygot

Further reading

• ζυγωτός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ζυγωτός - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.
• “ζυγωτός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • yoked idem, page 997.