ζῴων (zoon)

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

It can also be a form of ζώιον, “animal, living creature”.

Found 556 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.190: οὐδʼ ὅσον, ἄλλοτε τυτθόν, ἵνα ζώων ἀκάχοιτο.

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.prol.4: Τὸν δὲ Λίνον παῖδα εἶναι Ἑρμοῦ καὶ Μούσης Οὐρανίας· ποιῆσαι δὲ κοσμογονίαν, ἡλίου καὶ σελήνης πορείαν, καὶ ζῴων καὶ καρπῶν γενέσεις. τούτῳ ἀρχὴ τῶν ποιημάτων ἥδε· ἦν ποτέ τοι χρόνος οὗτος, ἐν ᾧ ἅμα πάντʼ ἐπεφύκει. ὅθεν λα …

Plutarch, Quaestiones Naturales 1: διὰ τί τὸ θαλάττιον ὕδωρ οὐ τρέφει τὰ δένδρα; πότερον διʼ ἢν αἰτίαν οῦδὲ τῶν ζᾠων τὰ χερσαῖα; ζῷον γὰρ ἔγγειον τὸ φυτὸν εἶναι, οἱ περὶ Πλάτωνα καὶ Ἀναξαγόραν καὶ Δημόκριτον οἴονται· οὐ γὰρ δι …

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.