ζωή

• ζόα (zóa), ζωά (zōá) — Doric
• ζόη (zóē) — Ionic
• ζοΐα (zoḯa) — Aeolic

From ζῶ (zô, “to live”) +‎ -η (-ē).^[1]

ζωή • (zōḗ) f (genitive ζωῆς); first declension

1. a living, property
2. life

• ζῷον (zôion)

• Greek: ζωή (zoḯ)

• βίος (bíos)

• “ζωή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ζωή”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ζωή”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ζωή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• ζωή in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• G2222 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.
  • existence idem, page 292.
  • life idem, page 489.

From Ancient Greek ζωή (zōḗ).

• IPA^(key): /zoˈi/
• Hyphenation: ζω‧ή

ζωή • (zoḯ) f (plural ζωές)

1. life
2. lifetime

• (life, lifetime): βίος m (víos)

• θάνατος m (thánatos, “death”)

• see: ζω (zo, “to live”)
• εφ' όρου ζωής (ef' órou zoḯs, “for life”)
• ζωή και κότα f (zoḯ kai kóta, “good life, carefree life”)
• ζωή σε λόγου σας (zoḯ se lógou sas, “literally: life to you; (my) condolences”) (colloquial)
• σκυλίσια ζωή f (skylísia zoḯ, “dog's life”)
• φιλί της ζωής (filí tis zoḯs, “kiss of life”)

• see ζωο- (zoo-) and