ζῆτα: Difference between revisions

|Definition=τό, indecl., <span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> [[the letter]] ζ, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Cra.</span>419b</span>, etc.; of the [[sixth]] book of the Iliad, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">POxy.</span>930.15</span> (ii/iii A.D.), <span class="title">Epigr.Gr.</span>1095. (Semitic [[zayin]], influenced by the names of the following letters, Gr.<b class="b3">ἦτα, θῆτα</b>.)</span>

|btext=(τό) :<br /><i>indécl.</i><br />zèta (Ζ, ζ), 6ᵉ lettre de l’alphabet grec.

|elnltext=ζῆτα, τό indecl. zêta (~ Ζ, ζ), zie Ζ, ζ.

|mdlsjtxt=<br />Ζ, ζ, [[ζῆτα]], τό, indecl., [[sixth]] [[letter]] of Gk. Alphabet: as [[numeral]] ζ# = [[ἑπτά]] and [[ἕβδομος]] (the obsol. \σ\#, i. e. ϝ, vau, the digamma, [[being]] retained to [[represent]] ἕξ, ἕκτοσ), but #22ζ = 7000. Ζ ζ is [[composed]] of ς and δ, so that in aeolic it becomes σδ, as Σδεύς [[κωμάσδω]] [[ψιθυρίσδω]] for [[Ζεύς]] [[κωμάζω]] [[ψιθυρίζω]] [[reversely]], in [[attic]], σδ becomes ζ, [[Ἀθήναζε]] [[θύραζε]] for Ἀθήνασδε θύρασδε. But ς often disappears in aeolic, [[where]] ζά = δια, see ζά, ζα-so in aeolic and doric, as we [[have]] [[Δεύς]] Δάν for [[Ζεύς]] Ζάν, [[δορκάς]] = [[ζορκάς]]:—so also [[ἀρίζηλος]] for [[ἀρίδηλος]]; [[ἀλαπαδνός]] from [[ἀλαπάζω]], [[παιδνός]] from [[παίζω]]:—doric, in the [[middle]] of words, it becomes δδ, as [[θερίδδω]] for -ίζω, [[μάδδα]] for [[μᾶζα]]. Zeta, [[being]] a [[double]] conson., made a [[short]] vowel at the end of the foregoing [[syllable]] [[long]] by [[position]]. But [[Homer]] used the vowel [[short]] [[before]] two [[prop]]. names, [[which]] could not [[otherwise]] [[come]] [[into]] the Hexam., viz. ἄστῠ Ζελείης, ὑλήεσσᾰ Ζάκυνθος.

|ftr='''ζῆτα''': {zē̃ta}<br />'''Grammar''': n. (Pl. u. a.)<br />'''Meaning''': der sechste Buchstabe des griech.<br />'''Etymology''' : Alphabets, aus dem Semitischen, u. zw. zunächst aus hebr. ''zajit'', aram. ''zētā'' (Lewy Fremdw. 169f.; s. noch die Lit. bei Schwyzer 140 A. 4). Die geläufige Annahme, [[ζῆτα]] wäre aus hebr. ''zajin'' nach [[βῆτα]], [[ἦτα]], [[θῆτα]] umgebildet, ist jedenfalls nicht notwendig.<br />'''Page''' 1,613