The Greek word for animal is
ζώο
Translations for animal and their definitions
| ζώο | |
| 1. n. (zoology) mammal | |
| 2. n. animal, beast, creature | |
| 3. n. brute |
| άγριος | |
| 1. adj. Of animals: undomesticated, untamed, feral, wild | |
| 2. adj. Of plants: wild, uncultivated | |
| 3. adj. Of persons: uncivilised, uncouth, unsociable |
| ζωώδης | |
| 1. adj. like an animal, unlike a human being | |
| 2. adj. subhuman, animal, bestial, brutish |
| κτήνος | |
| 1. n. domestic animal, farm animal, beast | |
| 2. n. (figuratively) wild person, brute, beast | |
| 3. n. animal, beast |
| θηρίο | |
| 1. n. animal (not human) | |
| 2. n. beast | |
| 3. n. brute | |
| 4. n. predator |
| αγροίκος | |
| 1. n. boor, churl, roughneck | |
| 2. n. yokel | |
| 3. n. bounder | |
| 4. adj. churlish, boorish | |
| 5. adj. rustic, coarse |
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