Zenon

plural Zenons

1. A surname.

plural Zenons

1. A male given name from Ancient Greek, variant of Zeno.

   I followed Orlan’s advice and had the baby baptized immediately. I named him Zenon, after his father’s first nom de guerre.

   2001, Maria Savchyn Pyskir, translated by Ania Savage, “Marriage and Motherhood”, in Thousands of Roads: A Memoir of a Young Woman’s Life in the Ukrainian Underground During and After World War II, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 54

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   Of her two sons, the one, Zenon, became king of Armenia, while the other, Polemon, after assisting her in the administration of her kingdom during her life, succeeded her on the throne of Pontus.

   1849, “PYTHODOˊRIS”, in William Smith, editor, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. […], volume III (Oarses–Zygia), London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly, […] John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 629, column 2

   All the Greek papyri which belong to it were filed and docketed by a certain Zenon and formed therefore a part of his correspondence, his private archives.

   1922 March, Michael Rostovtzeff, “Introduction”, in A Large Estate in Egypt in the Third Century B. C.: A Study in Economic History (University of Wisconsin Studies, 23; Social Sciences and History, 6), Madison, Wis.: [University of Wisconsin], →OCLC, page 5

   For example, there is a famous paradox from one of the first philosophers who called themselves philosophers. Moreover, he is considered to be the inventor of dialectics, it is Zenon. There are two Zenons: there is Zenon the Stoic and Zenon of Elea.

   2023, Gilles Deleuze, translated by Charles J[oseph] Stivale, “Spinoza: The Velocities of Thought / 02”, in The Deleuze Seminars, archived from the original on 25 Sep 2023