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ζῳοφόρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ζῳοφόρος ζῳοφόρον

Structure: ζῳοφορ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: zw=on

Sense

  1. bearing animals, the zodiac

Declension

First/Second declension
M/F Neuter
SingularNominative ζῳοφόρος ζῳόφορον
Genitive ζῳοφόρου ζῳοφόρου
Dative ζῳοφόρῳ ζῳοφόρῳ
Accusative ζῳοφόρον ζῳόφορον
Vocative ζῳοφόρε ζῳόφορον
DualN/A/V ζῳοφόρω ζῳοφόρω
G/D ζῳοφόροιν ζῳοφόροιν
PluralNominative ζῳοφόροι ζῳόφορα
Genitive ζῳοφόρων ζῳοφόρων
Dative ζῳοφόροις ζῳοφόροις
Accusative ζῳοφόρους ζῳόφορα
Vocative ζῳοφόροι ζῳόφορα
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective ζῳοφόρος ζῳοφόρου ζῳοφορότερος ζῳοφοροτέρου ζῳοφορότατος ζῳοφοροτάτου
Adverb ζῳοφόρως ζῳοφορότερον ζῳοφορότατα

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

  • ἀνέρα δ’ ὑπνώοντα μίτῳ πολύσπι καλύπτω, ζῳοφόρων ἀνέμων οὐδὲν ἀτεμβόμενον. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 7653)
  • ἐντὸσ δὲ τοῦ περιστύλου δίκτυον ἦν χρυσοῦν, τὸ πάχοσ τῇ πλοκῇ δακτυλιαῖον καὶ πίνακασ παραλλήλουσ ζῳοφόρουσ τέσσαρασ ἴσουσ τοῖσ τοίχοισ ἔχον. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 18, chapter 26 6:4)

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

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