Zeus

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See also: zeus, Zéus, Zèus, and Zeŭs

Translingual

John Dory (Zeus faber)

Zeus olympius

Proper noun

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

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

Hyponyms

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

References

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

English

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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(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

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

Translations

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

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

Further reading

Zeus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

Suez, Suze

Catalan

Catalan Wikipedia has an article on:

Zeus

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ζεύς (Zeús).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
IPA^(key): (Valencian) unknown

Proper noun

Zeus m

(Greek mythology) Zeus

Czech

Pronunciation

IPA^(key):
Audio (file)

Proper noun

Zeus m anim

(Greek mythology) Zeus

Declension

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

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

Danish

Danish Wikipedia has an article on:

Zeus

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ζεύς (Zeús).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /søvˀs/,

Proper noun

Zeus

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

Dutch

Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:

Zeus

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Zeus

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

Related terms

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ζεύς (Zeús).

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Zeus m

(Greek mythology) Zeus (god)

Descendants

Vietnamese: Dớt

Anagrams

suez, usez

German

German Wikipedia has an article on:

Zeus

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /t͡sɔɪ̯s/
Audio (file)

Proper noun

Zeus m

Zeus

Italian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ζεύς (Zeús).

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Zeus m

(Greek mythology) Zeus

Anagrams

Suez

Latin

Latin Wikipedia has an article on:

Zeus

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ζεύς (Zeús).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /zeu̯s/,
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /d͡zeu̯s/,

Proper noun

Zeus m sg (genitive Diōs); third declension

(Greek mythology) Zeus

Declension

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

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

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

Zeus

Alternative forms

Dzeus

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Zeus m pers

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

Declension

Declension of Zeus

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

Further reading

Zeus in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ζεύς (Zeús).

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈzews/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈzewʃ/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈzewʃ/

Hyphenation: Zeus

Proper noun

Zeus m

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

See also

Júpiter

Slovak

Etymology

Derived from Ancient Greek Ζεύς (Zeús).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key):

Proper noun

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

(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 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

Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:

Zeus

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ζεύς (Zeús).

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Zeus m

(Greek mythology) Zeus

Swedish

Etymology

Ultimately from Ancient Greek Ζεύς (Zeús).

Proper noun

Zeus c (genitive Zeus)

(Greek mythology) Zeus (supreme among Greek gods)

See also

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

Turkish

Turkish Wikipedia has an article on:

Zeus

Proper noun

Zeus

(Greek mythology) Zeus

Wikious

Boobota

Sagapedia