ζῷον

See also: ζωόν and ζῶον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-

Proto-Indo-European *gʷyéh₃-w-os

Proto-Hellenic *ďōwós

Ancient Greek ζωός (zōós)

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Ancient Greek -ῐος (-ĭos)?

Ancient Greek -ῐον (-ĭon)

Ancient Greek ζώϊον (zṓïon)

Ancient Greek ζῷον

From earlier ζώϊον (zṓïon), from ζώς (zṓs, “living”, contracted from ζωός (zōós)) +‎ -ῐον (-ĭon, diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /zdɔ̂ːi̯.on/ → /ˈzo.on/ → /ˈzo.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /zdɔ̂ːi̯.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈzo.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈzo.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈzo.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈzo.on/

Noun

ζῷον • (zōîon) n (genitive ζῴου); second declension

1. animal, beast
2. (art) form, image

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ ζῷον; τοῦ ζῴου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ζῷον tò zōîon	τὼ ζῴω tṑ zōíō	τᾰ̀ ζῷᾰ tằ zōîă
Genitive	τοῦ ζῴου toû zōíou	τοῖν ζῴοιν toîn zōíoin	τῶν ζῴων tôn zōíōn
Dative	τῷ ζῴῳ tōî zōíōi	τοῖν ζῴοιν toîn zōíoin	τοῖς ζῴοις toîs zōíois
Accusative	τὸ ζῷον tò zōîon	τὼ ζῴω tṑ zōíō	τᾰ̀ ζῷᾰ tằ zōîă
Vocative	ζῷον zōîon	ζῴω zōíō	ζῷᾰ zōîă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ζῳδῐᾰκός (zōidĭăkós)
• ζῴδῐον (zōídĭon)
• ζῴειος (zōíeios)
• ζῳός (zōiós)

Related terms

• βίος (bíos, “life”)
• ζωή (zōḗ)
• ζῶ (zô, “to live”)

Descendants

• Greek: ζώο (zóo)
• → Coptic: ⲍⲱⲟⲛ (zōon)
• → English: zoon, zoo-, zo-, -zoic
• → Russian: зоо- (zoo-)
• ⇒ Translingual: Mycetozoa (taxonomic infraphylum)

Further reading

• “ζῷον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ζῷον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ζῷον in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• G2226 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.
  • animal idem, page 30.
  • beast idem, page 67.
  • being idem, page 72.
  • brute idem, page 102.
  • creature idem, page 183.
  • insect idem, page 444.