Zelotes

Translingual

Etymology

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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

• Allozelotes
• Civizelotes
• Marinarozelotes
• Trachyzelotes
• Turkozelotes
• Urozelotes
• Zelotinae

Descendants

• → Chinese: 狂蛛 (kuángzhū) (calque)

See also

• Zelotes on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Zelotes on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Zelotes on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons