Zelotes

Translingual

Etymology

    Etymology tree
    Proto-Indo-European *yeh₂-der.
    Ancient Greek ζῆλος (zêlos)
    Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
    Proto-Indo-European *-oyétider.?
    Ancient Greek -όω (-óō)
    Ancient Greek ζηλόω (zēlóō)
    Proto-Hellenic *-tās
    Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
    Ancient Greek ζηλωτής (zēlōtḗs)bor.
    Latin zēlōtēsbor.
    Translingual Zelotes

    Borrowed from Latin zēlōtēs (“zealot”) and Ancient Greek ζηλωτής (zēlōtḗs, “imitator, zealot”). Further from Ancient Greek ζηλόω (zēlóō, “to imitate, to be jealous of”) and Ancient Greek ζῆλος (zêlos, “zeal”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *yeh₂- (“to go, to enter, to travel”).

    Coined by German entomologist Johannes von Nepomuk Franz Xaver Gistel in 1848.

    Proper noun

    Zelotes m

    1. A taxonomic genus within the family Gnaphosidae – certain ground spiders.

    Derived terms

    Descendants

    • → Chinese: 狂蛛 (kuángzhū) (calque)

    See also

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