Zeus

See also: zeus and Zeŭs

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Translingual

John Dory (Zeus faber)

Zeus olympius

Proper noun

Zeus m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Zeidae – the John Dory and the Cape dory.
2. A taxonomic genus within the family Rhytismataceae – a fungus discovered on Mount Olympus, with yellow disc-shaped fruiting bodies that grow in the decaying wood of Bosnian pine trees.

Hypernyms

• (genus of fungi): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Fungi - kingdom; Dikarya - subkingdom; Ascomycota - phylum; Pezizomycotina - subphylum; Leotiomycetes - class; Rhytismatales - order; Rhytismataceae - family

References

• Zeus (fish) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Zeus (fungus) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Zeus (fish) on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Zeus (fungus) on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

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English

A restored marble and bronze statue of Zeus at the Hermitage Museum

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ζεύς (Zeús).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /zjuːs/

• Audio (UK)

  (file)

• (US) IPA^(key): /zus/
• Rhymes: -uːs

Proper noun

Zeus (plural Zeuses)

1. (Greek mythology) Supreme ruler of all Greek gods, husband to Hera.
2. A male given name.

Derived terms

• oh my Zeus

Translations

supreme ruler of all Greek gods

• Arabic: زْيُوس‎ m (zyūs)
• Armenian: Զեւս (Zews)
• Catalan: Zeus
• Cherokee: ᏑᏍ (Sus)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 宙斯 (zh) (Zhòusī)

• Czech: Zeus (cs) m
• Danish: Zeus
• Dutch: Zeus m
• Esperanto: Zeŭso
• Finnish: Zeus (fi)
• French: Zeus (fr) m
• Galician: Zeus m
• Georgian: ზევსი (ka) (zevsi)
• German: Zeus (de) m
• Greek: Ζευς (el) m (Zefs), Δίας (el) m (Días)

  Ancient: Ζεύς m (Zeús)

• Hebrew: זֶאוּס‎ (Ze'ūs)
• Hungarian: Zeusz (hu)
• Icelandic: Seifur (is) m
• Irish: Séas m
• Japanese: ゼウス (Zeusu)

• Korean: 제우스 (ko) (Jeuseu)
• Latin: Iuppiter (la) m, Zeus m
• Macedonian: Зевс m (Zevs)
• Marathi: जेअस m (zeasa), जेउस m (zeusa)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Zevs

  Nynorsk: Zevs

• Persian: زئوس‎ (zeus)
• Polish: Zeus (pl) m
• Portuguese: Zeus (pt) m
• Russian: Зевс (ru) m (Zevs)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Зеус m, Зевс m

  Roman: Zeus (sh) m, Zevs m

• Slovene: Zeus m
• Spanish: Zeus (es) m
• Swahili: Zeu
• Swedish: Zeus (sv)
• Turkish: Zeus (tr)
• Ukrainian: Зевс (Zevs)
• Vietnamese: Dớt
• Wolof: Sës

Further reading

• Zeus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Suez, Suze

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Catalan

Proper noun

Zeus m

1. Zeus

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Czech

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

Proper noun

Zeus m

1. Zeus

Further reading

• Zeus in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• Zeus in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

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Danish

Proper noun

Zeus

1. (Greek mythology) Zeus (Supreme ruler of all Greek gods, husband to Hera)

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Dutch

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ζεύς (Zeús).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zœy̯s/
• Rhymes: -œy̯s

Proper noun

Zeus

1. (Greek mythology) Zeus (Supreme ruler of all Greek gods, husband to Hera)

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ζεύς (Zeús).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dzøs/, /zøs/

• Audio (Paris)

  (file)

Proper noun

Zeus m

1. (Greek mythology) Zeus (god)

Anagrams

• suez, usez

Descendants

• Vietnamese: Dớt

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German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tsɔɪ̯s/

Proper noun

Zeus m

1. Zeus

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Italian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ζεύς (Zeús).

Proper noun

Zeus m

1. (Greek mythology) Zeus

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zɛws/

• audio

  (file)

Proper noun

Zeus m

1. (Greek mythology) Zeus

Declension

declension of Zeus

	singular
nominative	Zeus
genitive	Zeusa
dative	Zeusowi
accusative	Zeusa
instrumental	Zeusem
locative	Zeusie
vocative	Zeusie

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ζεύς (Zeús).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈzews/

Proper noun

Zeus m

1. (Greek mythology) Zeus (supreme god of the Greek pantheon)

See also

• Júpiter

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Slovak

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ζεύς (Zeús).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈze̞.us/

Proper noun

Zeus m (genitive Dia) declension pattern chlap

1. (Greek mythology) Zeus

Declension

Declension of Zeus

	singulare tantum
nominative	Zeus
genitive	Dia
dative	Diovi
accusative	Dia
locative	Diovi
instrumental	Diom

Further reading

• Zeus in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

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Spanish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ζεύς (Zeús).

Pronunciation

• (Castilian) IPA^(key): /ˈθeu̯s/
• (Others) IPA^(key): /ˈseu̯s/

Proper noun

Zeus m

1. (Greek mythology) Zeus

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Swedish

Proper noun

Zeus

1. (Greek mythology) Zeus (supreme among Greek gods)