zelotes

zēlōtēs

1. Romanization of 𐌶𐌴𐌻𐍉𐍄𐌴𐍃

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ζηλωτής (zēlōtḗs).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /zeːˈloː.teːs/, [d̪͡z̪eːˈɫ̪oːt̪eːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /d͡zeˈlo.tes/, [d̪͡z̪eˈlɔːt̪es]

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.

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

• → German: Zelot
• → Middle Dutch: zelote
  • Dutch: zeloot
• → Middle English: zelote
  • English: zealot

• “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.