ζηλωτής

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ζηλόω (zēlóō, “to emulate”) +‎ -τής (-tḗs, masculine agentive suffix).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /zdɛː.lɔː.tɛ̌ːs/ → /zi.loˈtis/ → /zi.loˈtis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /zdɛː.lɔː.tɛ̌ːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ze̝.loˈte̝s/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /zi.loˈtis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /zi.loˈtis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /zi.loˈtis/

Noun

ζηλωτής • (zēlōtḗs) m (genitive ζηλωτοῦ); first declension

1. emulator, zealous admirer or follower
2. zealot

Inflection

First declension of ὁ ζηλωτής; τοῦ ζηλωτοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ζηλωτής ho zēlōtḗs	τὼ ζηλωτᾱ́ tṑ zēlōtā́	οἱ ζηλωταί hoi zēlōtaí
Genitive	τοῦ ζηλωτοῦ toû zēlōtoû	τοῖν ζηλωταῖν toîn zēlōtaîn	τῶν ζηλωτῶν tôn zēlōtôn
Dative	τῷ ζηλωτῇ tōî zēlōtēî	τοῖν ζηλωταῖν toîn zēlōtaîn	τοῖς ζηλωταῖς toîs zēlōtaîs
Accusative	τὸν ζηλωτήν tòn zēlōtḗn	τὼ ζηλωτᾱ́ tṑ zēlōtā́	τοὺς ζηλωτᾱ́ς toùs zēlōtā́s
Vocative	ζηλωτᾰ́ zēlōtắ	ζηλωτᾱ́ zēlōtā́	ζηλωταί zēlōtaí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Finnish: selootti
• → Gothic: 𐌶𐌴𐌻𐍉𐍄𐌴𐍃 (zēlōtēs)
• → Latin: zēlōtēs
  • → German: Zelot
  • Italian: zelota
  • Hungarian: zelóta
  • → Middle Dutch: zelote
    • Dutch: zeloot
  • → Middle English: zelote
    • English: zealot
  • → Polish: zelota
  • → Translingual: Zelotes
• Serbo-Croatian: zèlōt
• → Swedish: selot

Further reading

• “ζηλωτής”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ζηλωτής”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ζηλωτής in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• G2207 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • admirer idem, page 12.
  • emulator idem, page 270.