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ˈzi noʊzeno
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Princeton's WordNet
Zeno, Zeno of Eleanoun
ancient Greek philosopher who formulated paradoxes that defended the belief that motion and change are illusory (circa 495-430 BC)
Zeno, Zeno of Citiumnoun
ancient Greek philosopher who founded the Stoic school (circa 335-263 BC)
Wiktionary
Zenonoun
A male given name from Ancient Greek.
Etymology: Via Latin Zēno, from Ancient Greek Ζήνων (Zḗnōn), an ancient derivative of Ζεύς (Zeús). Modern scientific and philosophical use derives from Zeno of Elea, poser of Zeno's paradoxes.
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Zeno is a name often related to two major figures in history. 1. Zeno of Elea: An ancient Greek philosopher, known for his paradoxes which have influenced philosophical and mathematical thought. His famous paradoxes deal with concepts of motion and infinity. 2. Zeno of Citium: was a Hellenistic philosopher who was the founder of the Stoic school of philosophy, which he taught in Athens from about 300 BC. Alternatively, Zeno can also refer to various Byzantine emperors and Eastern Orthodox saints. The specific reference often depends on the context where the name is used.
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Zeno
Zeno, originally named Tarasis, was Byzantine Emperor from 474 to 475 and again from 476 to 491. Domestic revolts and religious dissension plagued his reign, which nevertheless succeeded to some extent in foreign issues. His reign saw the end of the Western Roman Empire under Julius Nepos, but he contributed much to stabilizing the eastern Empire. In ecclesiastical history, Zeno is associated with the Henotikon or "instrument of union", promulgated by him and signed by all the Eastern bishops, with the design of solving the monophysite controversy.
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
Zeno
Greek philosopher of the Eleatic school (q. v.), and who flourished in 500 B.C.; was the founder of the dialectic so successfully adopted by Socrates, which argues for a particular truth by demonstration of the absurdity that would follow from its denial, a process of argument known as the reductio ad absurdum.
Zeno
Greek philosopher, the founder of Stoic philosophy, born at Citium, in Cyprus, son of a merchant and bred to merchandise, but losing all in a shipwreck gave himself up to the study of philosophy; went to Athens, and after posing as a cynic at length opened a school of his own in the Stoa, where he taught to extreme old age a gospel called Stoicism, which, at the decline of the heathen world, proved the stay of many a noble soul that but for it would have died without sign, although it is thus "Sartor," in the way of apostrophe, underrates it: "Small is it that thou canst trample the Earth with its injuries under thy feet, as old Greek Zeno trained thee; thou canst love the Earth while it injures thee, and even because it injures thee; for this a Greater than Zeno was needed, and he too was sent" (342-270 B.C.). See Stoics, The. Zenobia
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According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Zeno is ranked #10505 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Zeno surname appeared 3,055 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Zeno.
50.7% or 1,549 total occurrences were Black.
30.1% or 921 total occurrences were White.
16.4% or 501 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
1.9% or 58 total occurrences were of two or more races.
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Anagrams for ZENO »
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of ZENO in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of ZENO in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of ZENO in a Sentence
The ancient world was not a place for modern gender equity. But the Stoic philosophers, in their discourses on political and moral life, held that virtue, or ethical excellence, had no gender. Zeno of Citium envisaged an ideal community of sages that included women. The view follows from the Stoic doctrine that all humans are endowed with reason.
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