Ζωή
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See also: ζωή
Ancient Greek[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From ζωή (zōḗ), fashioned as a personal name after Hebrew חַוָּה (ḥawwā, “Eve”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /zdɔː.ɛ̌ː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /zoˈe̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /zoˈi/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /zoˈi/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /zoˈi/
Proper noun[edit]
Ζωή • (Zōḗ) f (genitive Ζωῆς); first declension
Inflection[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- → Aragonese: Zoya
- → Breton: Zoe
- → Bulgarian: Зоя (Zoja)
- → Catalan: Zoe
- → Chinese: 佐伊 (Zuǒyī)
- → Czech: Zoja, Zoe
- → Danish: Zoe
- → Dutch: Zoë
- → English: Zoe, Zoë, Zoey
- → Finnish: Zoe
- → French: Zoé, Zoë
- → Galician: Zoe
- → German: Zoe
- Greek: Ζωή (Zoḯ)
- → Italian: Zoe
- → Korean: 조에 (Jo'e)
- → Latin: Zōē
- → Latvian: Zoja
- → Norwegian: Zoë
- → Persian: زوئه (zo'e)
- → Polish: Zoja, Zoe
- → Portuguese: Zoé
- → Romanian: Zoe
- → Serbo-Croatian: Zoja
- → Slovak: Zoja
- → Slovene: Zoja
- → Spanish: Zoe
- → Swedish: Zoë
- → Russian: Зо́я (Zója)
- → Turkish: Zoe
- → Ukrainian: Зо́я (Zója)
Greek[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
- a female given name, the Greek form of Zoë, Zoe
Declension[edit]
Categories:
- Ancient Greek terms calqued from Hebrew
- Ancient Greek terms derived from Hebrew
- Ancient Greek 2-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek proper nouns
- Ancient Greek oxytone terms
- Ancient Greek feminine proper nouns
- Ancient Greek first-declension proper nouns
- Ancient Greek feminine proper nouns in the first declension
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns
- Greek lemmas
- Greek proper nouns
- Greek feminine nouns
- Greek given names
- Greek female given names
- Greek nouns declining like 'γραμμή'