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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

  • ἀπὸ πυρῶν καὶ κριθέων ὧλλοι ζώουσι, Αἰγυπτίων δὲ τῷ ποιευμένῳ ἀπὸ τούτων τὴν ζόην ὄνειδοσ μέγιστον ἐστί, ἀλλὰ ἀπὸ ὀλυρέων ποιεῦνται σιτία, τὰσ ζειὰσ μετεξέτεροι καλέουσι. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 36 3:2)
  • μὴ δὲ ποιεῦντα ταῦτα μηδὲ ἀποφαίνοντα δικαίην ζόην ἰθύνεσθαι θανάτῳ. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 177 3:2)
  • εἶχον δὲ οὐδὲν οὐδ’ οἱ νεηνίσκοι, ὥσπερ αἱ Ἀμαζόνεσ, εἰ μὴ τὰ ὅπλα καὶ τοὺσ ἵππουσ, ἀλλὰ ζόην ἔζωον τὴν αὐτὴν ἐκείνῃσι, θηρεύοντέσ τε καὶ ληιζόμενοι. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 4, chapter 112 1:3)
  • νῦν ὦν μηκέτι πλεῦνα χρόνον ζόην τοιήνδε ἔχωμεν, ἀλλ’ ἀπελθόντεσ ἐσ τὸ πλῆθοσ διαιτώμεθα. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 4, chapter 114 2:3)
  • οὐ μὲν οὐδὲ ἡ Φερετίμη εὖ τὴν ζόην κατέπλεξε. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 4, chapter 205 2:1)

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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