Zeus

See also: zeus, Zéus, Zèus, and Zeŭs

Translingual

John Dory (Zeus faber)

Zeus olympius

Proper noun

Zeus m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Zeidae – John Dory and Cape dory.
2. A taxonomic genus within the family Rhytismataceae – a fungus discovered on Mount Olympus, with yellow disc-shaped fruiting bodies that grow in the decaying wood of Bosnian pine trees.

Hypernyms

• (genus of fungus): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Fungi - kingdom; Dikarya - subkingdom; Ascomycota - phylum; Pezizomycotina - subphylum; Leotiomycetes - class; Rhytismatales - order; Rhytismataceae - family

Hyponyms

• (genus in Zeidae): Zeus faber (John Dory) - type species
• (genus of fungus): Zeus olympus - sole accepted species

References

• Zeus (fish) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Zeus (fungus) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Zeus (Linnaeus) on Wikispecies.Wikispecies (fish)
• Zeus (Minter & Diam.) on Wikispecies.Wikispecies (fungus)

English

A restored marble and bronze statue of Zeus at the Hermitage Museum

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ζεύς (Zeús). Doublet of Dyeus and Jove.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /z(j)uːs/

  • Audio (Received Pronunciation); /zjuːs/:

    (file)

• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /zus/
• (Wales) IPA^(key): /zɪu̯s/
• (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA^(key): /zʉs/
• Rhymes: -uːs

Proper noun

Zeus (plural Zeuses)

1. (Greek mythology) Supreme ruler of all Greek gods, husband to Hera.
2. A male given name.
3. A representative given name for a dog.
   • 2008 January–February, “70 Ways to Improve Every Day of the Week”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 1, →ISSN, page 135:

     67 give zeus a bath Wash off whatever your dog rolled in over the weekend. It'll freshen up your house and you'll burn about 100 calories.

Derived terms

• oh my Zeus
• Zeusian

Translations

supreme ruler of all Greek gods

• Afrikaans: Zeus (af)
• Arabic: زَفْس m (zafs), زْيُوس m (zyūs)
• Armenian: Զեւս (hy) (Zews), Զևս (hy) (Zews)
• Catalan: Zeus
• Cherokee: ᏑᏍ (sus)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 宙斯 (zh) (Zhòusī)

• Coptic: ⲍⲉⲩⲥ (zeus)
• Czech: Zeus (cs) m
• Danish: Zeus
• Dutch: Zeus (nl) m
• Esperanto: Zeŭso
• Finnish: Zeus (fi)
• French: Zeus (fr) m
• Galician: Zeus m
• Georgian: ზევსი (zevsi)
• German: Zeus (de) m
• Greek: Ζευς (el) m (Zefs), Δίας (el) m (Días)

  Aeolic: Δάν m (Dán)

  Ancient: Ζεύς m (Zeús)

  Mycenaean: 𐀇𐀸 (di-we)

• Hebrew: זֶאוּס (Ze'ūs)
• Hindi: ज़ीउस (zīus)
• Hungarian: Zeusz (hu)
• Icelandic: Seifur (is) m
• Irish: Séas m
• Italian: Zeus (it) m
• Japanese: ゼウス (ja) (Zeusu)
• Korean: 제우스 (ko) (Je'useu)
• Latin: Iuppiter (la) m, Zeus m
• Latvian: Zevs m
• Lithuanian: Dzeusas m
• Lombard: Zeus (lmo) m
• Macedonian: Зевс m (Zevs)
• Marathi: झेअस m (jheas), झेउस m (jheus), झुस m (jhus)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Zevs

  Nynorsk: Zevs

• Occitan: Zèus m
• Old Church Slavonic: Ꙁеѵсъ (Zeüsŭ)
• Persian: زئوس (fa) (ze'ws)
• Polish: Zeus (pl) m
• Portuguese: Zeus (pt) m
• Russian: Зевс (ru) m (Zevs)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Зеус m, Зевс m

  Roman: Zeus (sh) m, Zevs m

• Slovene: Zeus m
• Spanish: Zeus (es) m
• Swahili: Zeu
• Swedish: Zeus (sv)
• Turkish: Zeus (tr)
• Ukrainian: Зевс (Zevs)
• Vietnamese: Dớt
• Wolof: Sës
• Yiddish: זעוס (zeus)

See also

• (Greek mythology Olympian gods) god; Apollo, Aphrodite, Ares, Artemis, Athena, Demeter, Dionysus, Hades, Hephaestus, Hera, Hestia, Hermes, Poseidon, Zeus

Further reading

• Zeus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Suez, Suze

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ζεύς (Zeús).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈzɛws]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) unknown

Proper noun

Zeus m

1. (Greek mythology) Zeus

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈzɛu̯s]

• Audio:

  (file)

Proper noun

Zeus m anim (related adjective Diův)

1. (Greek mythology) Zeus

Declension

Declension of Zeus (sg-only semisoft masculine animate foreign irreg-stem)

	singular
nominative	Zeus
genitive	Dia
dative	Diovi
accusative	Dia
vocative	Die
locative	Diovi
instrumental	Diem

Further reading

• “Zeus”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “Zeus”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “Zeus”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

Danish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ζεύς (Zeús).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /søvˀs/, [ˈsœwˀs]

Proper noun

Zeus

1. (Greek mythology) Zeus (supreme ruler of all Greek gods, husband to Hera)

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch zeus, from Ancient Greek Ζεύς (Zeús).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zœy̯s/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: Zeus
• Rhymes: -œy̯s

Proper noun

Zeus

1. (Greek mythology) Zeus (Supreme ruler of all Greek gods, husband to Hera)

Related terms

• joviaal
• Jupiter
• deva

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ζεύς (Zeús).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dzøs/, /zøs/

• Audio (Paris):

  (file)

• Audio:

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Proper noun

Zeus m

1. (Greek mythology) Zeus (god)

Descendants

• → Vietnamese: Dớt
• → Persian: زئوس (ze'us)

Anagrams

• suez, usez

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡sɔɪ̯s/

• Audio:

  (file)

Proper noun

Zeus m

1. Zeus

Italian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ζεύς (Zeús).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): ^*/ˈd͡zɛws/
• Rhymes: -ɛws
• Hyphenation: Zèus

Proper noun

Zeus m

1. (Greek mythology) Zeus

Anagrams

• Suez

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ζεύς (Zeús).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /zeu̯s/, [d̪͡z̪ɛu̯s̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /d͡zeu̯s/, [d̪͡z̪ɛu̯s]

Proper noun

Zeus m sg (genitive Diōs); third declension

1. (Greek mythology, rare, New Latin) Zeus
   • 1830, Simon Karsten, Xenophanis Colophonii Carminum Reliquiae De Parmenidis Philosophia.20:

     Quis ignorat Persarum religiones, in quibus duo illa numina consecrata sunt, lucis alter, alter tenebrarum Deus? Ejusdem notionis vestigia, quamvis obscura, in Graecorum mythologica apparent, ubi in primis celebrantur Ζεύς et Ἅιδης, alter coeli et lucis, alter orci et tenebrarum Deus.

     Who does not know of the Persian religions, in which two spirits are worshipped, one a god of light, the other of darkness? Traces of the same idea, although obscured, show up in Greek mythology: in its origins, Zeus and Hades are worshipped, one as a god of heaven and light, the other of the underworld and darkness.

Declension

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, normal variant), singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Zeus
Genitive	Dios
Dative	Diī
Accusative	Dia
Ablative	Die (?)
Vocative	Zeu

Polish

Alternative forms

• Dzeus

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin Zeus. Doublet of Jowisz and Jupiter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈzɛ.us/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛus
• Syllabification: Ze‧us
• Homophone: ze.us

Proper noun

Zeus m pers

1. (Greek mythology) Zeus (supreme ruler of all Greek gods)

Declension

Declension of Zeus

	singular
nominative	Zeus
genitive	Zeusa
dative	Zeusowi
accusative	Zeusa
instrumental	Zeusem
locative	Zeusie
vocative	Zeusie

Further reading

• Zeus in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ζεύς (Zeús).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈzews/ [ˈzeʊ̯s]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈzews/ [ˈzeʊ̯s]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈzewʃ/ [ˈzeʊ̯ʃ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈzewʃ/

• Hyphenation: Zeus

Proper noun

Zeus m

1. (Greek mythology) Zeus (supreme god of the Greek pantheon)

See also

• Júpiter

Slovak

Etymology

Derived from Ancient Greek Ζεύς (Zeús).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈzeus]

Proper noun

Zeus m pers (genitive singular Dia, declension pattern of chlap)

1. (Greek mythology) Zeus

Declension

Declension of Zeus

	singulare tantum
nominative	Zeus
genitive	Dia
dative	Diovi
accusative	Dia
locative	Diovi
instrumental	Diom

Further reading

• “Zeus”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ζεύς (Zeús).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ˈθeus/ [ˈθeu̯s]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /ˈseus/ [ˈseu̯s]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eus
• Syllabification: Zeus

Proper noun

Zeus m

1. (Greek mythology) Zeus

Swedish

Etymology

Ultimately from Ancient Greek Ζεύς (Zeús).

Proper noun

Zeus c (genitive Zeus)

1. (Greek mythology) Zeus (supreme among Greek gods)

See also

• (Greek mythology Olympian gods) god; Apollo, Afrodite, Ares, Artemis, Athena, Demeter, Hefaistos, Hera, Hestia, Hermes, Poseidon, Zeus

Turkish

Proper noun

Zeus

1. (Greek mythology) Zeus