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ζειρά

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ζειρά

Structure: ζειρ (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: A foreign word.

Sense

  1. a wide upper garment

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ζειρά ζειρᾱ́ ζειραί
Genitive ζειρᾶς ζειραῖν ζειρῶν
Dative ζειρᾷ ζειραῖν ζειραῖς
Accusative ζειρᾱ́ν ζειρᾱ́ ζειρᾱ́ς
Vocative ζειρᾱ́ ζειρᾱ́ ζειραί

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • καὶ τότε δῆλον ἐγένετο οὗ ἕνεκα οἱ Θρᾷκεσ τὰσ ἀλωπεκᾶσ ἐπὶ ταῖσ κεφαλαῖσ φοροῦσι καὶ τοῖσ ὠσί, καὶ χιτῶνασ οὐ μόνον περὶ τοῖσ στέρνοισ ἀλλὰ καὶ περὶ τοῖσ μηροῖσ, καὶ ζειρὰσ μέχρι τῶν ποδῶν ἐπὶ τῶν ἵππων ἔχουσιν, ἀλλ’ οὐ χλαμύδασ. (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 4 5:1)
  • Ἀράβιοι δὲ ζειρὰσ ὑπεζωσμένοι ἦσαν, τόξα δέ παλίντονα εἶχον πρὸσ δεξιά, μακρά. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 7, chapter 69 2:1)
  • Θρήικεσ δὲ ἐπὶ μὲν τῇσι κεφαλῇσι ἀλωπεκέασ ἔχοντεσ ἐστρατεύοντο, περὶ δὲ τὸ σῶμα κιθῶνασ, ἐπὶ δὲ ζειρὰσ περιβεβλημένοι ποικίλασ, περὶ δὲ τοὺσ πόδασ τε καὶ τὰσ κνήμασ πέδιλα νεβρῶν, πρὸσ δὲ ἀκόντιά τε καὶ πέλτασ καὶ ἐγχειρίδια μικρά. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 7, chapter 75 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. a wide upper garment

Similar forms

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

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