ζωτικός, ή, όν,
(ζῶ) fit for giving or maintaining life, ἐπιθυμία [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 91b; δυνάμιες 5th-4th c.BC: Timaeus Locrus Philosophus 100d, compare 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 2.51 (_superlative_), 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 15.506; πνεῦμα LXX.Wis.15.11; ἰκμάς 1st c.AD: Cornutus Philosophus “de Natura Deorum” 2; φῶς 3rd c.AD: Porphyrius Tyrius Philosophus “ad Marcellam - Porphyrii Opuscula” 13; τὸ ὑγρὸν -ώτερον τοῦ ξηροῦ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Generatione Animalium” 761a27, compare 733a11; [ἔαρ] -ωτάτη ὥρα 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Causis Plantarum” 1.13.4. ] LXX+5th c.BC+]
__II full of life, alive, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 610e, 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 1.14.2, 3rd c.AD: Porphyrius Tyrius Philosophus “ad Gaurum - Abh. Berl. Akad.” 16.3, 5 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὰ τήθυα ζωτικώτερα τῶν σπόγγων more like animals, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Partibus Animalium” 681a10 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; τὰ -ώτατα μέρη (of the body) [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.130b. ] Refs 1st c.AD+] adverb -κῶς, ἔχειν to be fond of life, [[ [prev. author] “Cat.Mi.” 70. ] Refs]
__II.2 characteristic of life, vital, τὸ αὐτὰ ὑφ᾽ αὑτῶν κινεῖσθαι ζωτικόν [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Physica” 255a6 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; τόνος, πνεῦμα, φύσις, [[ “Stoicorum Veterum Fragmenta” 2.235, 241,272; κίνησις 2nd-3rd c.AD: Hermes Trismegistus cited in 5th c.AD: Stobaeus, Joannes 1.41.7, compare 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 6.7.5 (_comparative_), 3rd c.AD: Porphyrius Tyrius Philosophus “Sententiae ad intelligibilia ducentes” 37; κατὰ τὸ ζ. 5th c.AD: Proclus Philosophus “Inst.” 189. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+] adverb -κῶς[[ [prev. work] 39, 5th-6th c.AD: Damascius Philosophus “de Principiis” 79, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Hermes Trismegistus cited in Stob. [prev. cited] ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]