Ζευάκος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Borrowed from Scythian *Jīvaka, 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

1. a male given name from Scythian: Zeuacus

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ Ζευᾰ́κος; τοῦ Ζευᾰ́κου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Ζευᾰ́κος ho Zeuákos
Genitive	τοῦ Ζευᾰ́κου toû Zeuákou
Dative	τῷ Ζευᾰ́κῳ tôi Zeuákōi
Accusative	τὸν Ζευᾰ́κον tòn Zeuákon
Vocative	Ζευᾰ́κε Zeuáke
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: Ζευάκος (Zevákos)
• → Latin: Zeuacus

Further reading

• Justi, Ferdinand (1895) “Ζευάκος”, in Iranisches Namenbuch‎^[1] (in German), Marburg: N. G. Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 385