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): /zjuːs/

  • Audio (Received Pronunciation):

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• (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.

   • 2024 June 25, Issy Ronald, “Kevin, world’s tallest male dog, dies shortly after securing record”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     Eventually, he was named the world’s tallest male dog, taking over the title from fellow Great Dane Zeus who also died aged three in September, after suffering from bone cancer.

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)
• Bactrian: Ζαοου (Zaoou)
• Bulgarian: Зевс m (Zevs)
• 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
• Extremaduran: Zeu
• 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 Greek: Δάν m (Dán)

  Ancient Greek: Ζεύς m (Zeús)

  Mycenaean Greek: 𐀇𐀸 (di-we)

• Gujarati: ઝિયૂસ m (jhiyūs), ઝૂસ m (jhūs)
• Hebrew: זֶאוּס (Ze'ūs)
• Hindi: ज़्यूस m (zyūs)
• 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 (Zevsŭ)
• 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

  Latin: Zeus (sh) m, Zevs m

• Slovene: Zeus m
• Spanish: Zeus (es) m
• Swahili: Zeu
• Swedish: Zeus (sv)
• Tumbuka: Zeusi
• 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:

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Proper noun

Zeus m anim (relational 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), 2008–2026

Danish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ζεύς (Zeús).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /søvˀs/, [ˈsœwˀs]

Proper noun

Zeus (genitive 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:

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• 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/, /dzø/, /zø/

• Audio (Paris):

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• Audio (France (Saint-Maurice-de-Beynost)):

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• Audio (France (Paris)):

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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 (Germany (Berlin)):

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Proper noun

Zeus m

1. Zeus

Indonesian

Etymology

Derived from Ancient Greek Ζεύς (Zeús).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈzeus/ [ˈze.ʊs]
• Rhymes: -eus
• Syllabification: Ze‧us

Proper noun

Zeus

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

Further reading

• “Zeus”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Italian

Alternative forms

• Zeo (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ζεύς (Zeús).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): ^*/ˈd͡zɛ.us/
• Rhymes: -ɛus
• Hyphenation: Zè‧us

Proper noun

Zeus m

1. (Greek mythology) Zeus

Anagrams

• Suez

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *dyew-

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *dyḗws

Proto-Hellenic *Dzéus

Ancient Greek Ζεύς (Zeús)bor.

Latin Zeus

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ζεύς (Zeús).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈzɛu̯s]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈd͡zɛu̯s]

Proper noun

Zeus m sg (genitive Dios); 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.

	singular
nominative	Zeus
genitive	Dios
dative	Diī
accusative	Dia
ablative	Die
vocative	Zeus

The genitive, dative, accusative and ablative forms derive from the irregular second stem Δῐ- (Dĭ-).

Polish

Alternative forms

• Dzeus

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *dyew-

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *dyḗws

Proto-Hellenic *Dzéus

Ancient Greek Ζεύς (Zeús)bor.

Latin Zeuslbor.

Polish Zeus

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈzɛ.us/

• Audio:

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• 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^[2] (in Polish)

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): /zeus/, [ˈzeus]
• Rhymes: -eus
• Hyphenation: Ze‧us

Proper noun

Zeus m pers (genitive singular Dia)

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, 2003–2026

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ζεύς (Zeús).

Pronunciation

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

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -eus
• Syllabification: Zeus

Proper noun

Zeus m

1. (Greek mythology) Zeus

Swedish

Etymology

Ultimately from Ancient Greek Ζεύς (Zeús).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛvs/

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