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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>。この語源は、プラトンの語源を導き出す方法全体とともに、現代の学問では支持されていない<ref>https://archive.org/details/makersofhellascr00geej/mode/2up|pages=[https://archive.org/details/makersofhellascr00geej/mode/2up/page/n303/mode/2up?view=theater 554–555], The Makers of Hellas, C. Griffin, Limited, Jevons Frank Byron, 1903</ref><ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=o1xn5Bb-CacC, Limiting the Arbitrary, isbn:1556197497, Joseph John Earl, 2000</ref>。シケリアのディオドロス・シクロスは、ゼウスが生命の原因（ゼン）であると人間が信じたため、ゼンとも呼ばれたと記している<ref name="auto3">https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0060.tlg001.perseus-grc1:5.72, Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books I-V, book 5, chapter 72, www.perseus.tufts.edu</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>