zele
Middle English
/ˈzɛːl(ə)/
noun
Definitions
- Zeal; endless devotion or striving.
- Intense love or concern for something or someone.
- Any strong or aggravated feeling.
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French zel derived from Latin zēlus (zeal) derived from Ancient Greek ζῆλος (zeal, jealousy, eager rivalry, jealous).
Origin
Ancient Greek
ζῆλος
Gloss
zeal, jealousy, eager rivalry, jealous
Concept
Semantic Field
Emotions and values
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- overzeal English
- zeal English
- zealed English
- zealful English
- zealless English
- zealousy English
- zelosus Latin
- zelus Latin
- zelōsus Latin
- zēlus Latin
- zēlōsus Latin
- Gatter German
- jaloux French
- celo Spanish, Castilian
- ζηλότυπος Ancient Greek
- ζηλόω Ancient Greek
- ζῆλος Ancient Greek
- *yeh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- sjalu Norwegian Bokmål
- zelo Portuguese
- sjalu Norwegian Nynorsk
- zel Old French
- zel Catalan, Valencian
- ζήλος Greek (modern)
- selog Welsh
- sêl Welsh
- zel Middle French
- cio Old Portuguese
- gelos Old Occitan