Ζωή

See also: ζωή

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ζωή (zōḗ), fashioned as a personal name to Hebrew חוה‎ (“Eve”).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /zdɔː.ɛ̌ː/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /zoˈe/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /zoˈi/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /zoˈi/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /zoˈi/

Proper noun

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

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: Zoë
Latvian: Zoja
Norwegian: Zoë
Persian: زوئه‎
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

A female given name, the Greek form of Zoë, Zoe

Declension

declension of Ζωή

	singular	plural
nominative	Ζωή •	Ζωές •
genitive	Ζωής •	Ζωών •
accusative	Ζωή •	Ζωές •
vocative	Ζωή •	Ζωές •

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