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Latin
Etymology
From the Ancient Greek ζῳοτροφεῖον (zōiotropheîon), from ζωή (zōḗ, “life”) + τροφεῖον (tropheîon, “cage”).
Pronunciation
Noun
zōotrophīon n (genitive zōotrophīī); second declension
- (New Latin) menagerie
1675, Athanasius Kircher, Arca Noë:Ponamus jam, illud ab eo elevatum 10 cubitos; constabant consequenter reliqua sub tecto triplicis contignationis receptacula 20 cubitorum, competent ex reliquis contignationibus Magazini, & Zootrophii singulis quinque cubitorum altitudines.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- June 1694, Georg Franck von Franckenau, personal letter to Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz:
Zootrophia visitemus, et ingrediamur mechanicorum officinas; ibi videbimus lucem accendi naturae, immo ipsam contemplabimur Naturam Sua luce radiantem.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1732, Commercium Literarium ad Rei Medicae et Scientiae Naturalis Incrimentem Instituti, Week 2, public item VI:
Publicae litterae testantur in zootrophio, quod prope arcem Principalem Durlaco-Badensem, Carlsruhe, alitur, simiam Indiae orientalis d. XIII. Decembris anni praeteriti enixam esse prolem masculam […]- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter, Greek-type).
Derived terms