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ζοός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ζοός ζοή ζοόν

Structure: ζο (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: poet. for zwo/s, Theocr.

Sense

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • φεῦ φεῦ σχετλίων πόνων καὶ στυγερᾶσ ζόασ. (Euripides, choral, strophe 15)
  • ἰὼ πατρίσ, Μυκήνα φίλα, χάριν ἔχω ζόασ, χάριν ἔχω τροφᾶσ, ὅτι μοι συνομαίμονα τόνδε δόμοισ ἐξεθρέψω φάοσ. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode, lyric10)
  • εἰ δὲ θεοῖσ ἦν ξύνεσισ καὶ σοφία κατ’ ἄνδρασ, δίδυμον ἂν ἥβαν ἔφερον φανερὸν χαρακτῆρ’ ἀρετᾶσ ὅσοισιν μέτα, κατθανόντεσ τ’ εἰσ αὐγὰσ πάλιν ἁλίου δισσοὺσ ἂν ἔβαν διαύλουσ, ἁ δυσγένεια δ’ ἁπλοῦν ἂν εἶχεν ζόασ βίοτον, καὶ τῷδ’ ἦν τούσ τε κακοὺσ ἂν γνῶναι καὶ τοὺσ ἀγαθούσ, ἴσον ἅτ’ ἐν νεφέλαισιν ἄ‐ στρων ναύταισ ἀριθμὸσ πέλει. (Euripides, Heracles, choral, antistrophe 11)

Similar forms

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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