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ζῴδιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ζῴδιον ζῴδιου

Structure: ζῳδι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Sense

  1. a small figure
  2. the signs of the Zodiac

Declension

Second declension

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

  • δεῖ τὸν μάγειρον εἰδέναι πρώτιστα μὲν περὶ τῶν μετεώρων τάσ τε τῶν ἄστρων δύσεισ καὶ τὰσ ἐπιτολὰσ καὶ τὸν ἥλιον πότε ἐπὶ τὴν μακράν τε καὶ βραχεῖαν ἡμέραν ἐπάνεισι κἀν ποίοισίν ἐστι ζῳδίοισ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 22 3:5)
  • ἐν μὲν γὰρ τοῖσ ἰσημερινοῖσ ζῳδίοισ τῆσ σελήνησ οὔσησ ὁμαλίζειν τὰ πάθη, ἐν δὲ τοῖσ τροπικοῖσ ἀνωμαλίαν εἶναι καὶ πλήθει καὶ τάχει, τῶν δ’ ἄλλων ἑκάστου κατὰ τοὺσ συνεγγισμοὺσ εἶναι τὴν ἀναλογίαν. (Strabo, Geography, book 3, chapter 5 18:2)

Synonyms

  1. the signs of the Zodiac

Related

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

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