The corpus record — Latin

zelotes

zelotes · m

one that loves with jealousy

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Where it lives

De Pudicitia 1 · 0.74/10k
Adversus Marcionem 5 · 0.6/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.23/10k

What it meant

zēlōtes — Lewis & Short

zēlōtes, ae, m., = zhlwth/s,

I one that loves with jealousy, one that is jealous (eccl. Lat.); of God, Tert. adv. Marc. 1, 28; 4, 25; Vulg. Exod. 20, 5 al.

In the wild

zelotes Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 5.7
zelotes Tertullian, De Pudicitia 2
zelotes Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 3.23
zelotes Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 1.28
zelotes Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 4.39
zelotes Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 22.24

6 of 7 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.