Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ζωός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ζωός ζωή ζωόν

Structure: ζω (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. alive, living

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

  • εἰσ εἰκόνα Μαρκιανοῦ βασιλέωσ μορφὴν τήνδ’ ὁράᾳσ ζωῷ ἐναλίγκιον ἵππῳ, Μαρκιανὸν φορέοντι, βροτῶν βασιλῆα γενέθλησ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 8021)
  • ὃσ μὲν ἀπηνὴσ αὐτὸσ ἐῄ καὶ ἀπηνέα εἰδῇ, τῷ δὲ καταρῶνται πάντεσ βροτοὶ ἄλγἐ ὀπίσσω ζωῷ, ἀτὰρ τεθνεῶτί γ’ ἐφεψιόωνται ἅπαντεσ· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 56:2)
  • ὃσ μὲν ἀπηνὴσ αὐτὸσ ἐῄ καὶ ἀπηνέα εἰδῇ, τῷ δὲ καταρῶνται πάντεσ βροτοὶ ἄλγε’ ὀπίσσω ζωῷ, ἀτὰρ τεθνεῶτί γ’ ἐφεψιόωνται ἅπαντεσ· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 19 35:7)
  • ἢ ζῴῳ τινὶ εὐτελεῖ ὡμοίωσεν αὐτό, καταχρίσασ μίλτῳ καὶ φύκει ἐρυθήνασ χρόαν αὐτοῦ, καὶ πᾶσαν κηλῖδα τὴν ἐν αὐτῷ καταχρίσας (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 13:14)
  • καὶ ἐν αὐτῷ δὲ τῷ ζῴῳ τὰ ἥκιστα μετέχοντα πυρὸσ ἀναισθητότατα, καθάπερ ὀστᾶ καὶ τρίχεσ καὶ τὰ πόρρωθεν ἀφεστῶτα τῆσ καρδίασ σχεδὸν γὰρ ἡ πρὸσ τὰ ἐκ τῆσ ἀπουσίασ μείζων τῶν ἐκ τῆσ τοῦ πυρὸσ γίγνεται παρουσίασ διαφορά. (Plutarch, Aquane an ignis sit utilior, chapter, section 9 8:1)
  • ὁ δὲ ἀλωπεκίασ ὅμοιόσ ἐστι τῇ γεύσει τῷ χερσαίῳ ζῴῳ, διὸ καὶ τοῦ ὀνόματοσ ἔτυχε, καὶ ἡ βατὶσ δὲ εὔστομοσ, ἡ δὲ ἀστερία βατὶσ ἁπαλωτέρα καὶ εὔχυλοσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 53 1:5)
  • ἔχειν δὲ λέγουσιν αὐτὸ τοιαύτην ἀναπνοὴν ὥστε πάντα τὸν ἐντυχόντα τῷ ζῴῳ διαφθείρειν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 646)
  • τοῦ δ’ οὕτωσ συμφωνήσαντοσ ἐνεβίβασέν τε τὸν ἵππον καὶ ὑποστορέσαι τῷ ζῴῳ ἐκέλευσεν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 19 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. alive

Related

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

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