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: /zdɔ́͜ːj.on/ → /ˈzo.on/ → /ˈzo.on/

• 5th BC Attic: IPA: /zdɔ́͜ːj.on/
• 1st BC Egyptian: IPA: /ˈzo.on/
• 4th AD Koine: IPA: /ˈzo.on/
• 10th AD Byzantine: IPA: /ˈzo.on/
• 15th AD Constantinopolitan: IPA: /ˈzo.on/

NounEdit

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

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

InflectionEdit

Second declension of ζῷον, ζῴου

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ζῷον	τὼ ζῴω	τὰ ζῷᾰ
Genitive	τοῦ ζῴου	τοῖν ζῴοιν	τῶν ζῴων
Dative	τῷ ζῴῳ	τοῖν ζῴοιν	τοῖς ζῴοις
Accusative	τὸ ζῷον	τὼ ζῴω	τὰ ζῷᾰ
Vocative	ζῷον	ζῴω	ζῷᾰ
Dialectal forms:
Notes:

Derived termsEdit

• ζῴδιον ‎(zōídion), ζῳδιακὸς ‎(zōidiakòs)

Related termsEdit

• ζωή ‎(zōḗ)
• ζῶ ‎(zô)

DescendantsEdit

• 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.