to be zealous for
= ζηλοτυπέω, etym. of ζηλήμων, Eust. 70.30:—in Dor. form ζᾱλέω, to be zealous for, τὰ τᾶς αὐτοσαυτοῦ πατρίδος SIG 734.7 (Delph., i B.C.).
The corpus record
ζηλ-έω
zeleo
to be zealous for
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Where it lives
- Iphigenia in Aulis 5 · 5.6/10k
- Galatians 1 · 4.58/10k
- 2 Corinthians 1 · 2.23/10k
- Orestes 2 · 2.04/10k
- Persians 1 · 1.96/10k
- Works and Days 1 · 1.73/10k
- Prometheus Bound 1 · 1.7/10k
- Hiero 1 · 1.68/10k
- Gorgias 4 · 1.52/10k
- 1 Corinthians 1 · 1.48/10k
- Suppliants 1 · 1.42/10k
- Rhetoric 6 · 1.4/10k
Densest 12 of 29 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- ζηλῶ · zēlō Aeschylus, Persians 709–712
- ζηλῶ · zēlō Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 332–333
- ζηλοῦντες · zēlountes Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics 3
- ζηλοῦσι · zēlousi Aristotle, Politics 1333b (DIORISIS sentence 2848)
- ζηλουμένοις · zēloumenois Aristotle, Rhetoric 1
- ζηλοῦσι · zēlousi Aristotle, Rhetoric 2
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Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.