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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ζῶ (zô, “to live”) + -η (-ē).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /zdɔː.ɛ̌ː/ → /zoˈi/ → /zoˈi/
Noun
ζωή • (zōḗ) f (genitive ζωῆς); first declension
- a living, property
- life
Inflection
Descendants
See also
Further reading
- “ζωή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ζωή”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ζωή”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ζωή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- ζωή in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- G2222 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.
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ζωή (zōḗ).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /zoˈi/
- Hyphenation: ζω‧ή
Noun
ζωή • (zoḯ) f (plural ζωές)
- life
- lifetime
Declension
Declension of ζωή
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Synonyms
- (life, lifetime): βίος m (víos)
Antonyms
Derived terms
- see: ζω (zo, “to live”)
- εφ' όρου ζωής (ef' órou zoḯs, “for life”)
- ζωή και κότα f (zoḯ kai kóta, “good life, carefree life”)
- ζωή σε λόγου σας (zoḯ se lógou sas, “literally: life to you; (my) condolences”) (colloquial)
- σκυλίσια ζωή f (skylísia zoḯ, “dog's life”)
- φιλί της ζωής (filí tis zoḯs, “kiss of life”)
Related terms
- αζωικός (azoïkós, “azoic, without life”) (geology)
- άζωος (ázoos, “without life”)
- άζωτο n (ázoto, “nitrogen”)
- αναζωογονώ (anazoogonó, “renew, revive”) and derivatives
- ανθρωποζωικός (anthropozoïkós, “Anthropozoic”) (geology)
- αρτίζωος (artízoos, “with short life”) (medicine)
- ζείδωρος (zeídoros, “renewing, reviving”, adjective)
- ζω (zo, “live, exist”)
- ζωγραφίζω (zografízo, “I paint”) and derivatives
- ζώδιο n (zódio, “astrological sign”)
- ζωηράδα f (zoïráda, “liveliness”)
- ζωηρεύω (zoïrévo, “become livelier”)
- ζωηρός (zoïrós, “lively”) and derivatives
- ζωικός (zoïkós, “of the animals”) and derivatives
- ζων (zon, “living”, participle masculine, neuter), feminine: ζώσα (zósa) (formal)
- ζωντάνεμα n (zontánema, “reviving”)
- ζωντανεύω (zontanévo, “come/bring to life”)
- ζωντάνια f (zontánia, “being lively”)
- ζωντανό n (zontanó, “animal”) (colloquial)
- ζωντανός (zontanós, “alive”)
- ζωντόβολο n (zontóvolo, “animal, figuratively: derogatory”) (colloquial)
- ζωντοχήρος m (zontochíros, “divorced man”), feminine: ζωντοχήρα (zontochíra) (informal)
- ζωο- (zoo-)
- ζώο n (zóo, “animal”) and derivatives
- ζώπυρο n (zópyro)
- ζωτικός (zotikós, “vital”)
- λιγόζωος (ligózoos, “with short life”), ολιγόζωος (“with short life”)
- ξαναζωντανεύω (xanazontanévo, “come/bring to life again”)
- ολοζώντανος (olozóntanos, “very much alive”)
- υλοζωισμός m (ylozoïsmós, “hylozoism”) (philosophy)
- φυτοζωώ (fytozoó, “doing without”)