# Ζέφυρος
## Ancient Greek
### Alternative forms

* ζέφυρος (zéphuros)

### Etymology

Cognate with Mycenaean Greek 𐀽𐁆𐀫 (ze-phu-ro), pointing to Proto-Hellenic *Dzépʰuros. Probably related to ζόφος (zóphos, “darkness, west”), both occasionally connected to Proto-Indo-European *(h₃)yebʰ- (“to cover > to copulate”) (whence οἴφω (oíphō)), though either the reflex of the laryngeal in οἴφω (oíphō) or its loss from ζεφ- (zeph-) would be unexplained. More likely Pre-Greek in view of the suffix -υρ- (-ur-) and distant semantics, though Beekes is unsure.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /zdé.pʰy.ros/ → /ˈze.ɸy.ros/ → /ˈze.fi.ros/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /zdé.pʰy.ros/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /ˈze.pʰy.ros/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /ˈze.ɸy.ros/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /ˈze.fy.ros/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /ˈze.fi.ros/

### Proper noun

Ζέφῠρος • (Zéphuros) m (genitive Ζεφῠ́ρου); second declension
* Zephyrus, the west wind

#### Derived terms

* φῐλοζέφῠρος (philozéphuros)

#### Descendants

* → Greek: Ζέφυρος (Zéfyros), ζέφυρος (zéfyros) (learned)
* → Alemannic German: Zephyros
* → Azerbaijani: Zefir
* → Basque: Zefiro
* → Belarusian: Зефі́р (Zjefír), Зэфі́р (Zefír)
* → Breton: Zefyros
* → Bulgarian: Зефир (Zefir)
* → Chinese: 仄費羅斯／仄费罗斯
* → Czech: Zefyros
* → Danish: Zefyr
* → Dutch: Zephyros
* → English: Zephyr
* → Finnish: Zefyros
* → Georgian: ზეფიროსი (zepirosi)
* → German: Zephyr
* → Hebrew: זפירוס, זפיר
* → Hungarian: Zephürosz
* → Japanese: ゼピュロス (Zepyurosu)
* → Latin: zephyrus m (“the west wind”), Zephyrus (“Zephyrus”)
** Catalan: Zèfir
** French: zéphyr, Zéphyr
*** → Polish: zefir
*** → Romanian: zefir
*** → Russian: зефѵ́ръ (zefír), зефи́р (zefír, “marshmallow”)
**** → Belarusian: зефі́р (zjefír, “marshmallow”)
**** → Ukrainian: зефі́р (zefír, “marshmallow”)
*** → Turkish: zefir
** Galician: Céfiro
** Italian: zefiro, Zefiro
** Portuguese: zéfiro, Zéfiro
** Sicilian: zèfiru, Zèfiru
** Spanish: céfiro, Céfiro
** → English: Zephyrus
* → Lithuanian: Zefyras
* → Norwegian Nynorsk: Sefyros
* → Old Armenian: զեփիւռ (zepʻiwṙ)
** Armenian: զեփյուռ (zepʻyuṙ)
* → Persian: زفوروس
* → Polish: Zefir
* → Russian: Зефи́р (Zefír)
** → Chuvash: Зефир (Zefir)
* → Serbo-Croatian: Зефир / Zefir
* → Slovene: Zefir
* → Swedish: Zefyros
* → Ukrainian: Зефі́р (Zefír)

### References

* ↑ Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), “*i̯ebʰ-”, in Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 309
* ↑ Kümmel, Martin Joachim (2011–2023) “*i̯ebʰ- → *h₃i̯ebʰ-”, in Addenda und Corrigenda zu LIV²‎, page 39
* ↑ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ζέφυρος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 499
* “Ζέφυρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “Ζέφυρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* Ζέφυρος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
* Ζέφυρος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* “Ζέφυρος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
* Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,029