ζῷον

See also: ζωόν and ζῶον

Ancient Greek

From earlier ζώϊον (zṓïon), from ζώς (zṓs, “living”, contracted from ζωός (zōós)) +‎ -ῐον (-ĭon, diminutive suffix).^[1]

ζῷον • (zōîon) n (genitive ζῴου); second declension

Second declension of τὸ ζῷον; τοῦ ζῴου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ζῷον tò zōîon	τὼ ζῴω tṑ zōíō	τᾰ̀ ζῷᾰ tằ zōîă
Genitive	τοῦ ζῴου toû zōíou	τοῖν ζῴοιν toîn zōíoin	τῶν ζῴων tôn zōíōn
Dative	τῷ ζῴῳ tōî zōíōi	τοῖν ζῴοιν toîn zōíoin	τοῖς ζῴοις toîs zōíois
Accusative	τὸ ζῷον tò zōîon	τὼ ζῴω tṑ zōíō	τᾰ̀ ζῷᾰ tằ zōîă
Vocative	ζῷον zōîon	ζῴω zōíō	ζῷᾰ zōîă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “ζώω (> DER > ζώϊον, ζῷον)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 505

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“ζῷον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
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G2226 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.
- animal idem, page 30.
- beast idem, page 67.
- being idem, page 72.
- brute idem, page 102.
- creature idem, page 183.
- insect idem, page 444.