Ancient Greek

Τὸν θεὸν καλέεται Ζεύς.

Alternative forms

• Δάν ‎(Dán) Aeolic
• Δεύς ‎(Deús) Laconian
• Ζάν ‎(Zán), Ζάς ‎(Zás) Doric
• Ζήν ‎(Zḗn) poetic
• Θιός ‎(Thiós), Σιός ‎(Siós) Boeotian
• Τάν ‎(Tán) Cretan

Proper noun

Ζεύς • ‎(Zeús) m ‎(genitive Διός); third declension

1. Zeus

   Παῦε λέγων, μὰ τὸν Δία‎

   Paûe légōn, mà tòn Día

   Stop talking, by Zeus

2. a name of the emperors of Rome
3. referring to other gods, such as Amun, Baal, Ahura Mazda
   1. (with καταχθόνιος ‎(katakhthónios) or χθόνιος ‎(khthónios)) = Hades

Inflection

Hypernyms

• Κρονίδης ‎(Kronídēs), Κρονίων ‎(Kroníōn, “son of Cronus”)

Descendants

• English: Zeus
• Greek: Ζευς ‎(Zefs); Δίας ‎(Días)
• Latin: Zeus

References

• Ζεύς in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Ζεύς in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «Ζεύς» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Ζεύς in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G2203”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,029
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • heaven idem, page 393.
  • Zeus idem, page 1029.
• Smyth, Herbert Weir (1920), “Part II: Inflection”, in A Greek grammar for colleges, Cambridge: American Book Company, § 285