Ancient Greek

Noun

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

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

Inflection

Derived terms

• ζῴδιον ‎(zṓidion), ζῳδιακὸς ‎(zōidiakòs)

Related terms

• ζωή ‎(zōḗ)
• ζῶ ‎(zô)

Descendants

• Translingual: Mycetozoa (taxonomic infraphylum)
• English: zoon, zoo-, zo-
• Greek: ζώο ‎(zóo)

References

• 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’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.
  • animal idem, page 30.
  • beast idem, page 67.
  • being idem, page 72.
  • brute idem, page 102.
  • creature idem, page 183.
  • insect idem, page 444.