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ミケーネ時代のギリシャ語「𐀇𐀸, di-we」と「𐀇𐀺, di-wo」はLinear B音節文字で書かれており、その名前が最も早く確認されている<ref>The Linear B word di-we, http://www.palaeolexicon.com/ShowWord.aspx?Id=16703, The Linear B word di-wo, http://www.palaeolexicon.com/ShowWord.aspx?Id=16635, Palaeolexicon. Word study tool of Ancient languages</ref>。
プラトンは『クラテュロス』の中で、ゼウスの称号（ゼンとディア）がギリシャ語の「生命」や「〜のため」という言葉とダブることから、「万物に常に生命を与える源」という意味の民間語源を挙げている<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=ceOQKf0ZvFMC "Plato's ''Cratylus''{{-"}}] by Plato, ed. by David Sedley, Cambridge University Press, 6 November 2003, [https://books.google.com/books?id=ceOQKf0ZvFMC&lpg=PP1&dq=Plato's%20Cratylus&pg=PA91#v=onepage&q&f=false p. 91]</ref>。
[[Plato]], in his [[Cratylus (dialogue)|''Cratylus'']], gives a folk etymology of Zeus meaning "cause of life always to all things", because of puns between alternate titles of Zeus (''Zen'' and ''Dia'') with the Greek words for life and "because of".<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=ceOQKf0ZvFMC "Plato's ''Cratylus''{{-"}}] by Plato, ed. by David Sedley, Cambridge University Press, 6 November 2003, [https://books.google.com/books?id=ceOQKf0ZvFMC&lpg=PP1&dq=Plato's%20Cratylus&pg=PA91#v=onepage&q&f=false p. 91]</ref> This etymology, along with Plato's entire method of deriving etymologies, is not supported by modern scholarship.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/makersofhellascr00geej/mode/2up|pages=[https://archive.org/details/makersofhellascr00geej/mode/2up/page/n303/mode/2up?view=theater 554–555]|title=The Makers of Hellas|publisher=C. Griffin, Limited |last1=Jevons |first1=Frank Byron|year=1903}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o1xn5Bb-CacC|title=Limiting the Arbitrary|isbn=1556197497|last1=Joseph|first1=John Earl|year=2000}}</ref>
[[Diodorus Siculus]] wrote that Zeus was also called Zen, because the humans believed that he was the cause of life (zen).<ref name="auto3">{{Cite web|url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0060.tlg001.perseus-grc1:5.72|title=Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books I-V, book 5, chapter 72|website=www.perseus.tufts.edu}}</ref> While [[Lactantius]] wrote that he was called Zeus and Zen, not because he is the giver of life, but because he was the first who lived of the children of [[Cronus]].<ref>[[Lactantius]], ''Divine Institutes'' [https://topostext.org/work/543#1.11.1 1.11.1].</ref>
