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Zeno comes from Greek Zenon, which Behind the Name connects with Zeus through a poetic form of the god's name. The entry also distinguishes two famous philosophical bearers, Zeno of Elea and Zeno of Citium, the latter associated with the Stoic school. This gives the spelling both a documented personal-name origin and specific intellectual associations, without reducing it to a modern word such as zen.
- Origin
- From Greek Zenon, derived from Zeus through the poetic form Zen; borne by the philosophers of Elea and Citium. Source
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