Ζευάκος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Borrowed from Scythian *Jīvaka[1], ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃- (“to live”). Cognate with Middle Persian *zhīwak and its ancestor Old Persian *jīvaka.
Proper noun
Ζευάκος • (Zeuákos) m (genitive Ζευάκου); third declension
- a male given name from Scythian: Zeuacus
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ Ζευᾰ́κος; τοῦ Ζευᾰ́κου (Attic)
| Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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| Nominative | ὁ Ζευᾰ́κος ho Zeuákos | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ Ζευᾰ́κου toû Zeuákou | ||||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ Ζευᾰ́κῳ tôi Zeuákōi | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν Ζευᾰ́κον tòn Zeuákon | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | Ζευᾰ́κε Zeuáke | ||||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: Ζευάκος (Zevákos)
- → Latin: Zeuacus
References
- Tavernier, Jan (2007), “4.2.902. *Jīvaka-”, in Iranica in the Achaemenid Period (ca. 550–330 B.C.): Lexicon of Old Iranian Proper Names and Loanwords, Attested in Non-Iranian Texts, Peeters Publishers, →ISBN, page 221
Further reading
- Justi, Ferdinand (1895), “Ζευάκος”, in Iranisches Namenbuch (in German), Marburg: N. G. Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 385