Etymograph

English

Zograf

Zograf comes from Greek ζωγράφος ‘painter’, from ζωή ‘life’, and ultimately from Ancient Greek ζῶ ‘to live’.

  1. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEζῶ‘to live’
  2. Ancient Greek, derivedc. 800–300 BCEζωή
  3. Greek1453–presentsame form‘life’
  4. Greek, derived1453–presentζωγράφοςzográfos‘painter’
  5. EnglishtodayZograf

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history not traced here.

Lineage

  1. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEζῶ‘to live’
  2. Ancient Greek, derivedc. 800–300 BCEζωή
  3. Greek1453–presentsame form‘life’
  4. Greek, derived1453–presentζωγράφοςzográfos‘painter’
  5. EnglishtodayZograf

The story

Historical Macedonian, Bulgarian and Serbo-Croatian personal appellation, later used as pen name, which comes from the tradition of iconography in Eastern Orthodoxy. It comes from the occupation of iconograph or painter: Greek ζωγράφος (zográfos, “painter”), from ζωή (zoḯ, “life”) + -γράφος (-gráfos, “scribe”).

Linked words

through Ancient Greek ζωή

zoe, 13 more

Today it means

name A surname. Famously born by a saint (George the Zograf, an icon in Zograf Monastery) and used as the pen name of a number of Bulgarian iconographers and painters.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Ancient Greek ζῶ / Zograf

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