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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

  • ὅταν γὰρ αὕτη ζῳδίου μέγεθοσ ὑπερέχῃ τοῦ ὁρίζοντοσ, ἄρχεσθαι διοιδεῖν τὴν θάλατταν καὶ ἐπιβαίνειν τῆσ γῆσ αἰσθητῶσ μέχρι μεσουρανήσεωσ· (Strabo, Geography, book 3, chapter 5 16:4)
  • ὁ γὰρ θερινὸσ τροπικὸσ ἀπέχει ἀπὸ τοῦ ὁρίζοντοσ ἑνὸσ ζωδίου ἥμισυ καὶ δωδέκατον· (Strabo, Geography, book 2, chapter 5 84:6)

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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