zootrophion

From the Ancient Greek ζῳοτροφεῖον (zōiotropheîon), from ζωή (zōḗ, “life”) + τροφεῖον (tropheîon, “cage”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [zoː.ɔ.trɔˈpʰiː.ɔn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [d̪͡z̪o.o.t̪roˈfiː.on]

zōotrophīon n (genitive zōotrophīī); second declension

1. (New Latin) menagerie
   • 1675, Athanasius Kircher, Arca Noë:

     Ponamus jam, illud ab eo elevatum 10 cubitos; constabant consequenter reliqua sub tecto triplicis contignationis receptacula 20 cubitorum, competent ex reliquis contignationibus Magazini, & Zootrophii singulis quinque cubitorum altitudines.

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   • June 1694, Georg Franck von Franckenau, personal letter to Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz:

     Zootrophia visitemus, et ingrediamur mechanicorum officinas; ibi videbimus lucem accendi naturae, immo ipsam contemplabimur Naturam Sua luce radiantem.

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   • 1732, Commercium Literarium ad Rei Medicae et Scientiae Naturalis Incrimentem Instituti, Week 2, public item VI:

     Publicae litterae testantur in zootrophio, quod prope arcem Principalem Durlaco-Badensem, Carlsruhe, alitur, simiam Indiae orientalis d. XIII. Decembris anni praeteriti enixam esse prolem masculam […]

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Second-declension noun (neuter, Greek-type).

• Zootrophion