ζῷον
See also: ζωόν and ζῶον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *ďṓyyon, from Pre-Hellenic *gʷyōwyon, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷyeh₃w-y-om, from *gʷíh₃weti (“to live”). Cognate with βίος (bíos, “life”). Compare Avestan 𐬘𐬫𐬁𐬌𐬙𐬌 (jyāiti), Proto-Slavic *gojь (“life”), Old Armenian կեամ (keam).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /zɔ̂ːi̯.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈzo.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈzo.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈzo.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈzo.on/
Noun
ζῷον • (zôion) n (genitive ζῴου); second declension
- animal, beast
- (art) form, image
Inflection
Second declension of τὸ ζῷον; τοῦ ζῴου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ ζῷον tò zôion | τὼ ζῴω tṑ zṓiō | τᾰ̀ ζῷᾰ tà zôia | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ζῴου toû zṓiou | τοῖν ζῴοιν toîn zṓioin | τῶν ζῴων tôn zṓiōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ζῴῳ tôi zṓiōi | τοῖν ζῴοιν toîn zṓioin | τοῖς ζῴοις toîs zṓiois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ ζῷον tò zôion | τὼ ζῴω tṑ zṓiō | τᾰ̀ ζῷᾰ tà zôia | ||||||||||
Vocative | ζῷον zôion | ζῴω zṓiō | ζῷᾰ zôia | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ζῴδῐον (zṓidion), ζῳδῐᾰκός (zōidiakós)
Related terms
- ζωή (zōḗ)
- ζῶ (zô)
Descendants
- Greek: ζώο (zóo)
- → Coptic: ⲍⲱⲟⲛ (zōon)
- → English: zoon, zoo-, zo-
- → Russian: зоо- (zoo-)
- ⇒ Translingual: Mycetozoa (taxonomic infraphylum)
- Glosa: zoa
References
- “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, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, 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.