Zoe
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (UK) /ˈzəʊ.i/, /ˈzəʊ/
- IPA(key): (General American) /ˈzoʊ.i/, /ˈzoʊ/
Audio (UK): (file) - Rhymes: -əʊi, -əʊ, -oʊi, -oʊ
Proper noun
Zoe
- A female given name from Ancient Greek, of common usage, variant of Zoë.
- 1833, Lloyd Wharton Bickley, Zoe, or the Sicilian Sayda: A Romance, Key&Biddle, page 112:
- Rosalie smiled faintly, and at the clapping of her hands, the raven-haired Zoe, in all her surpassing beauty, entered the apartment.
- 1921, Fannie Hurst, Stardust, BiblioBazaar, LLC, published 2007, →ISBN, page 20:
- "Who ever heard of a girl named Zoe! You never did yourself." ¶ "I know I never did, Roy Kemble, but just the same I think it is the most beautiful name in the world. It isn't so much what it really means; names don't have to mean anything - it's what it feels like it means.
Anagrams
Czech
Proper noun
Zoe f
- a female given name, equivalent to English Zoë
Declension
German
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Proper noun
Zoe
- a female given name, equivalent to English Zoë
Italian
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ζωή (zōḗ).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈd͡zɔe]
Proper noun
Zoe f
- a female given name, equivalent to English Zoë
Occitan
Proper noun
Zoe f (Gascony)
- a female given name, equivalent to English Zoë
Further reading
- Patric Guilhemjoan, Diccionari elementari occitan-francés francés-occitan (gascon), 2005, Orthez, per noste, 2005, →ISBN, page 157.