Given name · Ukrainian
Зиновій
“Zeus”·“life”
Зиновій (Zynóvij) is a masculine given name from Ancient Greek. It is used in Ukrainian.
UkrainianWritten in Cyrillic script. In English: Zinovìj.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Зиновій is built from elements meaning “Zeus” and “life”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Ukrainian usage, Зиновій developed from Ζηνόβιος.
Зиновій’s family of names
In Ukrainian usage, Зиновій developed from the Ancient Greek form Ζηνόβιος. In Ukrainian usage, Зиновій has a transliteration in Zinovìj. In Ukrainian usage, Зиновій can be written in the Roman alphabet as Zynóvij.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 13
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Зиновій
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