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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

  • ψιλαὶ δὲ Περσικαὶ τὴν ἀνὰ μέσον τῶν ποδῶν χώραν ἐκάλυπτον, ἀκριβῆ τὴν εὐγραμμίαν τῶν ἐνυφασμένων ἔχουσαι ζῳδίων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 19 3:87)
  • τῆσ ἐκλειπτικῆσ σκιᾶσ τῆσ διαμέτρου τῆσ σελήνησ τριπλάσιον ὃ δ’ ἐκτρέπεται πλάτοσ ἡ σελήνη τῆσ διαμέτρου τῶν ζῳδίων ἐφ’ ἑκάτερα δωδεκάμοιρον. (Plutarch, De animae procreatione in Timaeo, section 31 10:1)
  • ἐκείναισ τήν τε γὰρ τῶν ἀπλανῶν τὴν ἁπάσασ φέρουσαν εἶναι, καὶ τὴν ὑπὸ ταύτῃ τεταγμένην καὶ κατὰ τὸν διὰ μέσων τῶν ζῳδίων τὴν φορὰν ἔχουσαν κοινὴν ἁπασῶν εἶναι, τῆσ δὲ τρίτησ ἁπάντων τοὺσ πόλουσ ἐν τῷ διὰ μέσων τῶν ζῳδίων εἶναι, τῆσ δὲ τετάρτησ τὴν φορὰν κατὰ τὸν λελοξωμένον πρὸσ τὸν μέσον ταύτησ· (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 12 99:1)
  • κατεγέγραπτο δ’ ὁ πέπλοσ ἅπασαν τὴν οὐράνιον θεωρίαν πλὴν ζῳδίων. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 243:1)

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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