ζῷον

See also: ζῶον

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Ancient GreekEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Hellenic *ďṓyyon, from Pre-Hellenic *gʷyōwyon, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃w-y-om, from *gʷíh₃weti (“to live”). Cognate with βίος (bíos, “life”). Compare Avestan 𐬘𐬫𐬁𐬌𐬙𐬌‏ (jyāiti), Proto-Slavic *gojь (“life”), Old Armenian կեամ (keam).

PronunciationEdit

 

• IPA^(key): /sdɔ́ːi̯.on/ → /ˈzo.on/ → /ˈzo.on/

• (5^th BC Attic) IPA^(key): /sdɔ́ːi̯.on/
• (1^st BC Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈzo.on/
• (4^th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈzo.on/
• (10^th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈzo.on/
• (15^th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈzo.on/

NounEdit

ζῷον • (zôion) n (genitive ζῴου); second declension

1. animal, beast
2. (art) form, image

InflectionEdit

Second declension of τὸ ζῷον; τοῦ ζῴου

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ζῷον	τὼ ζῴω	τᾰ̀ ζῷᾰ
Genitive	τοῦ ζῴου	τοῖν ζῴοιν	τῶν ζῴων
Dative	τῷ ζῴῳ	τοῖν ζῴοιν	τοῖς ζῴοις
Accusative	τὸ ζῷον	τὼ ζῴω	τᾰ̀ ζῷᾰ
Vocative	ζῷον	ζῴω	ζῷᾰ
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived termsEdit

• ζῴδῐον (zṓidion), ζῳδῐᾰκός (zōidiakós)

Related termsEdit

• ζωή (zōḗ)
• ζῶ (zô)

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.
  • animal idem, page 30.
  • beast idem, page 67.
  • being idem, page 72.
  • brute idem, page 102.
  • creature idem, page 183.
  • insect idem, page 444.