Meaning: 'life-giver'.
Inspiration: The word is attested as an epithet of the cross in an inscriptions on a funerary cross from Tamit (DBMNT 957): σταυρὲ ζωόδοτα, ἀνάπαυσον τὴ(ν) ψ[υχ](ὴν) το(ῦ) δούλ(ου) | [Ἰσ]αὰκ πρε(σβυ)τ(έρου) ἐν κόλπ[οις] Ἀβρὰμ κ(αὶ) Ἰσαὰκ κ(αὶ) Ἰακώβ.