celo
Spanish
noun
Definitions
- zeal
- heat a condition where a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile and therefore eager to mate
Etymology
Inherited from Latin zēlus (zeal) borrowed 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
- ζηλότυπος Ancient Greek
- ζηλόω Ancient Greek
- ζῆλος Ancient Greek
- *yeh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- sjalu Norwegian Bokmål
- zelo Portuguese
- sjalu Norwegian Nynorsk
- zele Middle English
- zel Old French
- zel Catalan, Valencian
- ζήλος Greek (modern)
- zel Middle French
- cio Old Portuguese
- gelos Old Occitan