ζηλωτής
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ζηλόω (zēlóō, “to emulate”) + -τής (-tḗs, masculine agentive suffix).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /zdɛː.lɔː.tɛ̌ːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ze̝.loˈte̝s/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /zi.loˈtis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /zi.loˈtis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /zi.loˈtis/
Noun
ζηλωτής • (zēlōtḗs) m (genitive ζηλωτοῦ); first declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ ζηλωτής ho zēlōtḗs |
τὼ ζηλωτᾱ́ tṑ zēlōtā́ |
οἱ ζηλωταί hoi zēlōtaí | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ ζηλωτοῦ toû zēlōtoû |
τοῖν ζηλωταῖν toîn zēlōtaîn |
τῶν ζηλωτῶν tôn zēlōtôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ ζηλωτῇ tōî zēlōtēî |
τοῖν ζηλωταῖν toîn zēlōtaîn |
τοῖς ζηλωταῖς toîs zēlōtaîs | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν ζηλωτήν tòn zēlōtḗn |
τὼ ζηλωτᾱ́ tṑ zēlōtā́ |
τοὺς ζηλωτᾱ́ς toùs zēlōtā́s | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ζηλωτᾰ́ zēlōtắ |
ζηλωτᾱ́ zēlōtā́ |
ζηλωταί zēlōtaí | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Finnish: selootti
- → Gothic: 𐌶𐌴𐌻𐍉𐍄𐌴𐍃 (zēlōtēs)
- → Latin: zēlōtēs
- Serbo-Croatian: zèlōt
- → Swedish: selot
Further reading
- “ζηλωτής”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ζηλωτής”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ζηλωτής in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- G2207 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.