zelotes

See also: zélotes

Gothic

Romanization

zēlōtēs

1. romanization of 𐌶𐌴𐌻𐍉𐍄𐌴𐍃

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ζηλωτής (zēlōtḗs).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [zeːˈɫoː.teːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [d͡zeˈlɔː.tes]

Noun

zēlōtēs m (genitive zēlōtae); first declension

1. a person who loves with jealousy; a jealous person
2. a zealot or one who is zealous for a cause
   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Exodus.20.5:

     Nōn adōrābis ea, neque colēs: ego sum Dominus Deus tuus fortis, zēlōtēs, vīsitāns inīquitātem patrum in fīliōs, in tertiam et quārtam generātiōnem eōrum quī ōdērunt mē.

     Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me.

Declension

First-declension noun (masculine, Greek-type, nominative singular in -ēs).

	singular	plural
nominative	zēlōtēs	zēlōtae
genitive	zēlōtae	zēlōtārum
dative	zēlōtae	zēlōtīs
accusative	zēlōtēn	zēlōtās
ablative	zēlōtē	zēlōtīs
vocative	zēlōtē	zēlōtae

Related terms

• zēlanter
• zēlātor
• zēlō
• zēlotypa
• zēlotypia
• zēlotypus
• zēlus

Descendants

• → German: Zelot
• Italian: zelota
• Hungarian: zelóta
• → Middle Dutch: zelote
  • Dutch: zeloot
• → Middle English: zelote
  • English: zealot
• → Polish: zelota
• → Translingual: Zelotes

References

• “zelotes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "zelotes", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “zelotes”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.