The corpus record

ζωός

zoos

alive, living

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Where it lives

Shield of Heracles 4 · 12.36/10k
De longitudine et brevitate vitae 1 · 5.68/10k
Iliad 36 · 3.23/10k
Odyssey 24 · 2.76/10k
Suppliants 1 · 1.42/10k
Histories 5 · 0.27/10k
Enneads 5 · 0.24/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2 · 0.19/10k
Anabasis 1 · 0.18/10k
Hellenica 1 · 0.15/10k

What it meant — LSJ

alive, living

alive, living, Pi. P. 4.209, Hdt. 2.70, etc.; οὐ . . ζωοῦ οὐδὲ θανόντος Od. 17.115; ζωὸν ἑλεῖν τινα to take prisoner, Il. 6.38; ζωὸν λαβεῖν X. HG 1.2.5; cf. ζωγρέω: metaph., ζωὸν δὲ φθιμένων . . κλέος A. Eleg. 3. —Also ζώς Il. 5.887, 16.445, Hdt. 1.194, JRS 15.145,148 (Cotiaeum) (ζῶς Ptol.Ascal., ζώς Hdn.Gr. 2.53; on the other cases, ib. 712); ζοός Archil. 63, Epich. 189, Berl.Sitzb. 1927.161 (Cyrene), Theoc. 2.5 (ζόος in Epich. l.c., Hdn.Gr. 2.947).

In the wild

ζωήν̓ · zōēn Aristotle, De longitudine et brevitate vitae (DIORISIS sentence 2)
ζωὸν · zōon Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 5.5 (DIORISIS sentence 4561)
ζωὸς · zōos Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 5.6 (DIORISIS sentence 4627)
ζωοῖσιν · zōoisin Euripides, Suppliants 1 (DIORISIS sentence 569)
ζωὸς · zōos Herodotus, Histories 1.194.3 (DIORISIS sentence 1379)
ζωὸν · zōon Herodotus, Histories 2.122.1 (DIORISIS sentence 2424)

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Where it came from

Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. ζωός (scan pp. 416-417; entry #2945).

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