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Glossary entry

Greek (Ancient) term or phrase:

ζωή

English translation:

life

Added to glossary by Vicky Papaprodromou
May 7, 2004 14:47
22 yrs ago
Greek (Ancient) term

zoe

Theological term
Proposed translations (English)
5 +5 life
4 -1 not clear

Proposed translations

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3 mins
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life

In Greek alphabet: ÆÙÇ - æùÞ /zo'i/

Peer comment(s):

agree Maria Ferstl
3 mins
Thanks, Maria.
agree Adam Bartley : Just quickly, how did you encode the Greek? Doesn't show up as unicode...
7 mins
If you have the option Greek Windows, that;'s ok. Otherwise you might need the Greek fonts, which are Unicode and can be found at: http://www.in.gr/grfonts/grfonts.htm
agree Joseph Brazauskas
59 mins
Thanks, Joseph!
agree Valentini Mellas
2 hrs
Thanks!
neutral lacplesis : As it's ancient Greek, I'd rather agree to Arie Amaya
2 days 11 hrs
agree sassa
2 days 16 hrs
Thanks, Sassa!
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
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17 mins

not clear

Are you sure it's zoe? As it'd be written æïå and such a word doesn't exist. Maybe you mean æåõ? that can perfectly constitute the vocative of æåõò. There's also èïéùáù/èïéíç/èïéùá that is a feast or banquete but there word is apparently shown only in tragedies. Although there's a "zoee" æùç (æïí, æïá, æïéá) that is a form of æïïò, a poetic form of æùïò used by Theocritus.
Ôhis sounds more like a declension of that word. æùïò is something alive or living, capable of living or awake.. also related to something brutal or animal.. as full of live instead of barbarian. A living being or animal and it's very common in philosophy.
Peer comment(s):

disagree Adam Bartley : Not so, see the entry in the LSJ. It refers to life as opposed to death, with the earliest appearance being at Pindar Nem. 8.36.
2 days 23 hrs
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