Ζωή

See also: ζωή

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ζωή (zōḗ), fashioned as a personal name after Hebrew חַוָּה (ḥawwā, “Eve”).

Pronunciation
 

Proper noun

Ζωή • (Zōḗ) f (genitive Ζωῆς); first declension

  1. Zoe

Inflection
First declension of ἡ Ζωή; τῆς Ζωῆς (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ἡ Ζωή
hē Zōḗ
Genitive τῆς Ζωῆς
tês Zōês
Dative τῇ Ζωῇ
têi Zōêi
Accusative τὴν Ζωήν
tḕn Zōḗn
Vocative Ζωή
Zōḗ
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants
  • → Aragonese: Zoya
  • → Breton: Zoe
  • → Bulgarian: Зоя (Zoja)
  • → Catalan: Zoe
  • → Chinese: 佐伊 (Zuǒyī)
  • → Czech: Zoja, Zoe
  • → Danish: Zoe
  • → Dutch: Zoë
  • → English: Zoe, Zoë, Zoey
  • → Finnish: Zoe
  • → French: Zoé, Zoë
  • → Galician: Zoe
  • → German: Zoe
  • Greek: Ζωή (Zoḯ)
  • → Italian: Zoe
  • → Korean: 조에 (Jo'e)
  • → Latin: Zōē
  • → Latvian: Zoja
  • → Norwegian: Zoë
  • → Persian: زوئه (zo'e)
  • → Polish: Zoja, Zoe
  • → Portuguese: Zoé
  • → Romanian: Zoe
  • → Serbo-Croatian: Zoja
  • → Slovak: Zoja
  • → Slovene: Zoja
  • → Spanish: Zoe
  • → Swedish: Zoë
  • → Russian: Зо́я (Zója)
  • → Turkish: Zoe
  • → Ukrainian: Зо́я (Zója)

Greek

Proper noun

Ζωή • (Zoḯ) f (plural Zoḯ)

  1. a female given name, the Greek form of Zoë, Zoe

Declension
declension of Ζωή
case     \     number singular plural
nominative Ζωή • Ζωές •
genitive Ζωής • Ζωών •
accusative Ζωή • Ζωές •
vocative Ζωή • Ζωές •
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.