Etymology

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Today it means: Bare or universal life. Full definition →

Ancient Greek ζωή
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  1. Ancient Greek · borrowed fromζωή“life”
  2. English todayzoe

From Ancient Greek ζωή (zōḗ, “life”), first distinguished in this particular sense by Giorgio Agamben.

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.