ζῷον
See also: ζῶον
Contents
Ancient GreekEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Hellenic *ďṓyyon, from Pre-Hellenic *gʷyōwyon, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷyeh₃w-y-om, from *gʷíh₃weti (“to live”). Cognate with βίος (bíos, “life”). Compare Avestan 𐬘𐬫𐬁𐬌𐬙𐬌 (jyāiti), Proto-Slavic *gojь (“life”), Old Armenian կեամ (keam).
PronunciationEdit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /zdɔ́ːi̯.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈzo.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈzo.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈzo.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈzo.on/
NounEdit
ζῷον • (zôion) n (genitive ζῴου); second declension
InflectionEdit
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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| Nominative | τὸ ζῷον tò zôion |
τὼ ζῴω tṑ zṓiō |
τᾰ̀ ζῷᾰ tà zôia |
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| Genitive | τοῦ ζῴου toû zṓiou |
τοῖν ζῴοιν toîn zṓioin |
τῶν ζῴων tôn zṓiōn |
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| Dative | τῷ ζῴῳ tôi zṓiōi |
τοῖν ζῴοιν toîn zṓioin |
τοῖς ζῴοις toîs zṓiois |
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| Accusative | τὸ ζῷον tò zôion |
τὼ ζῴω tṑ zṓiō |
τᾰ̀ ζῷᾰ tà zôia |
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| Vocative | ζῷον zôion |
ζῴω zṓiō |
ζῷᾰ zôia |
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| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. | ||||||||||||
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- Translingual: Mycetozoa (taxonomic infraphylum)
- → Coptic: ⲍⲱⲟⲛ (zōon)
- → English: zoon, zoo-, zo-
- Greek: ζώο (zóo)
ReferencesEdit
- ζῷον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ζῷον in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ζῷον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “G2226”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.