Zeus

See also: zeus, Zéus, Zèus, and Zeŭs

Translingual edit

John Dory (Zeus faber)

Zeus olympius

Proper noun edit

Zeus m

A taxonomic genus within the family Zeidae – John Dory and Cape dory.
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 edit

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

Hyponyms edit

(genus in Zeidae): Zeus faber (John Dory) - type species
(genus of fungus): Zeus olympus - sole accepted species

References edit

Zeus (fish) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Zeus (fungus) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Zeus (Linnaeus) on Wikispecies.Wikispecies (fish)
Zeus (Minter & Diam.) on Wikispecies.Wikispecies (fungus)

English edit

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

Etymology edit

From Ancient Greek Ζεύς (Zeús). Doublet of Dyeus and Jove.

Pronunciation edit

(UK, US, Canada) IPA^(key): /z(j)u(ː)s/
Audio (UK) (file)
(General American) IPA^(key): /zus/
(Wales, Canada) IPA^(key): /zɪu̯s/
Rhymes: -uːs

Proper noun edit

Zeus (plural Zeuses)

(Greek mythology) Supreme ruler of all Greek gods, husband to Hera.
A male given name.
A representative given name for a dog.
- 2008 January–February, “70 Ways to Improve Every Day of the Week”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 1, →ISSN, page 135:
  67 give zeus a bath Wash off whatever your dog rolled in over the weekend. It'll freshen up your house and you'll burn about 100 calories.

Derived terms edit

Translations edit

supreme ruler of all Greek gods

Arabic: زَفْس m (zafs), زْيُوس m (zyūs)
Armenian: Զեւս (hy) (Zews), Զևս (hy) (Zews)
Catalan: Zeus
Cherokee: ᏑᏍ (sus)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 宙斯 (zh) (Zhòusī)
Coptic: ⲍⲉⲩⲥ (zeus)
Czech: Zeus (cs) m
Danish: Zeus
Dutch: Zeus (nl) m
Esperanto: Zeŭso
Finnish: Zeus (fi)
French: Zeus (fr) m
Galician: Zeus m
Georgian: ზევსი (zevsi)
German: Zeus (de) m
Greek: Ζευς (el) m (Zefs), Δίας (el) m (Días)
Aeolic: Δάν m (Dán)

Ancient: Ζεύς m (Zeús)

Mycenaean: 𐀇𐀸 (di-we)
Hebrew: זֶאוּס (Ze'ūs)
Hindi: ज़ीउस (zīus)
Hungarian: Zeusz (hu)
Icelandic: Seifur (is) m
Irish: Séas m
Italian: Zeus (it) m
Japanese: ゼウス (Zeusu)
Korean: 제우스 (ko) (Je'useu)
Latin: Iuppiter (la) m, Zeus m
Latvian: Zevs m
Lithuanian: Dzeusas m
Lombard: Zeus (lmo) m
Macedonian: Зевс m (Zevs)
Marathi: झेअस m (jheas), झेउस m (jheus), झुस m (jhus)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: Zevs

Nynorsk: Zevs
Occitan: Zèus m
Old Church Slavonic: Ꙁеѵсъ (Zeüsŭ)
Persian: زئوس (fa) (ze'ws)
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
Yiddish: זעוס (zeus)

See also edit

(Greek mythology Olympian gods) god; Apollo, Aphrodite, Ares, Artemis, Athena, Demeter, Dionysus, Hades, Hephaestus, Hera, Hestia, Hermes, Poseidon, Zeus

Further reading edit

Zeus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams edit

Suez, Suze

Catalan edit

Catalan Wikipedia has an article on:

Zeus

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ζεύς (Zeús).

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈzɛws]
IPA^(key): (Valencian) unknown

Proper noun edit

Zeus m

(Greek mythology) Zeus

Czech edit

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): [ˈzɛu̯s]
Audio (file)

Proper noun edit

Zeus m anim

(Greek mythology) Zeus

Declension edit

Declension of Zeus (sg-only semisoft masculine animate foreign irreg-stem)

	singular
nominative	Zeus
genitive	Dia
dative	Diovi
accusative	Dia
vocative	Die
locative	Diovi
instrumental	Diem

Further reading edit

Zeus in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
Zeus in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
Zeus in Internetová jazyková příručka

Danish edit

Danish Wikipedia has an article on:

Zeus

Etymology edit

From Ancient Greek Ζεύς (Zeús).

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /søvˀs/, [ˈsœwˀs]

Proper noun edit

Zeus

(Greek mythology) Zeus (supreme ruler of all Greek gods, husband to Hera)

Dutch edit

Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:

Zeus

Etymology edit

From Middle Dutch zeus, from Ancient Greek Ζεύς (Zeús).

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /zœy̯s/
Audio (file)
Hyphenation: Zeus
Rhymes: -œy̯s

Proper noun edit

Zeus

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

Related terms edit

French edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ζεύς (Zeús).

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /dzøs/, /zøs/
Audio (Paris) (file)
Audio (file)

Proper noun edit

Zeus m

(Greek mythology) Zeus (god)

Descendants edit

Vietnamese: Dớt

Anagrams edit

suez, usez

German edit

German Wikipedia has an article on:

Zeus

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /t͡sɔɪ̯s/
Audio (file)

Proper noun edit

Zeus m

Zeus

Italian edit

Etymology edit

From Ancient Greek Ζεύς (Zeús).

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): ^*/ˈd͡zɛws/
Rhymes: -ɛws
Hyphenation: Zèus

Proper noun edit

Zeus m

(Greek mythology) Zeus

Anagrams edit

Suez

Latin edit

Latin Wikipedia has an article on:

Zeus

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ζεύς (Zeús).

Pronunciation edit

(Classical) IPA^(key): /zeu̯s/, [d̪͡z̪ɛu̯s̠]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /d͡zeu̯s/, [d̪͡z̪ɛu̯s]

Proper noun edit

Zeus m sg (genitive Diōs); third declension

(Greek mythology) Zeus

Declension edit

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, normal variant), singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Zeus
Genitive	Dios
Dative	Diī
Accusative	Dia
Ablative	Die
Vocative	Zeu

Polish edit

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

Zeus

Alternative forms edit

Dzeus

Etymology edit

Learned borrowing from Latin Zeus. Doublet of Jowisz and Jupiter.

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /ˈzɛ.us/
Audio (file)
Rhymes: -ɛus
Syllabification: Ze‧us
Homophone: zeus

Proper noun edit

Zeus m pers

(Greek mythology) Zeus (supreme ruler of all Greek gods)

Declension edit

Declension of Zeus

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

Further reading edit

Zeus in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese edit

Etymology edit

From Ancient Greek Ζεύς (Zeús).

Pronunciation edit

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈzews/ [ˈzeʊ̯s]
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈzewʃ/ [ˈzeʊ̯ʃ]

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈzewʃ/

Hyphenation: Zeus

Proper noun edit

Zeus m

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

See also edit

Júpiter

Slovak edit

Etymology edit

Derived from Ancient Greek Ζεύς (Zeús).

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): [ˈzeus]

Proper noun edit

Zeus m anim (genitive singular Dia, declension pattern of chlap)

(Greek mythology) Zeus

Declension edit

Declension of Zeus

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

Further reading edit

“Zeus”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

Spanish edit

Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:

Zeus

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ζεύς (Zeús).

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): (Spain) /ˈθeus/ [ˈθeu̯s]
IPA^(key): (Latin America) /ˈseus/ [ˈseu̯s]
Audio: (file)
Rhymes: -eus
Syllabification: Zeus

Proper noun edit

Zeus m

(Greek mythology) Zeus

Swedish edit

Etymology edit

Ultimately from Ancient Greek Ζεύς (Zeús).

Proper noun edit

Zeus c (genitive Zeus)

(Greek mythology) Zeus (supreme among Greek gods)

See also edit

(Greek mythology Olympian gods) god; Apollo, Afrodite, Ares, Artemis, Athena, Demeter, Hefaistos, Hera, Hestia, Hermes, Poseidon, Zeus

Turkish edit

Turkish Wikipedia has an article on:

Zeus

Proper noun edit

Zeus

(Greek mythology) Zeus

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