ζῴου (zoou)

ζῴου is an Ancient Greek form of ζῷον, meaning “living creature, animal”. It is the genitive singular neuter noun.

It can also be a form of ζωός, “alive, living”.

Found 194 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.1350: ἢ ζωοῦ εὕροιεν Ὕλα μόρον, ἠὲ θανόντος.

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 7.1.55: … ἔστι δὲ φωνὴ ἀὴρ πεπληγμένος ἢ τὸ ἴδιον αἰσθητὸν ἀκοῆς, ὥς φησι Διογένης ὁ Βαβυλώνιος ἐν τῇ Περὶ φωνῆς τέχνῃ. ζῴου μέν ἐστι φωνὴ ἀὴρ ὑπὸ ὁρμῆς πεπληγμένος, ἀνθρώπου δʼ ἔστιν ἔναρθρος καὶ ἀπὸ διανοίας ἐκπεμπομένη, ὡς ὁ Διογέν …

John of Damascus, Saint, Vita Barlaam et Joasaph 8.64: … τῆς γεννήσεως τῆς ἡμετέρας· οὐ σπέρμα βραχὺ ἐνίεται εἰς τὴν ὑποδεχομένην μήτραν αὐτό; πόθεν οὖν ἡ τοσαύτη τοῦ ζώου διάπλασις; Τῷ οὖν ταῦτα πάντα δημιουργήσαντι ἐκ μὴ ὄντων καὶ ἔτι δημιουργοῦντι οὐκ ἀδύνατον ἐκ γῆς τὰ νενεκρω …

All forms of ζῷον (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.