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πεντάζωνος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πεντάζωνος πεντάζωνον

Structure: πενταζων (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: zw/nh

Sense

  1. with five zones

Examples

  • τούτων δ’ ἐστὶ καὶ τὸ πεντάζωνον αὐτὴν εἶναι. (Strabo, Geography, book 2, chapter 2 2:5)
  • πεντάζωνον μὲν γὰρ ὑποθέσθαι δεῖ τὸν οὐρανόν, πεντάζωνον δὲ καὶ τὴν γῆν, ὁμωνύμουσ δὲ καὶ τὰσ ζώνασ τὰσ κάτω ταῖσ ἄνω· (Strabo, Geography, book 2, chapter 5 6:1)
  • νοείσθω δὴ πεντάζωνοσ καὶ ὁ ἰσημερινὸσ τεταγμένοσ ἐν αὐτῇ κύκλοσ, καὶ ἄλλοσ τούτῳ παράλληλοσ, ὁρίζων τὴν κατεψυγμένην ἐν τῷ βορείῳ ἡμισφαιρίῳ, καὶ διὰ τῶν πόλων τισ τέμνων τούτουσ πρὸσ ὀρθάσ. (Strabo, Geography, book 2, chapter 5 10:3)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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