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ζωστήρ

Third declension Noun; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ζωστήρ ζωστῆρος

Structure: ζωστηρ (Stem)

Etym.: zw/nnumi

Sense

  1. a girdle, a warrior's belt or baldric, the belt
  2. a woman's girdle.

Declension

Third 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

  • ὁ δὲ Βρέννοσ οἱο͂ν ἐφυβρίζων καὶ καταγελῶν ἀποδυσάμενοσ τὴν μάχαιραν ἅμα καὶ τὸν ζωστῆρα προσέθηκε τοῖσ σταθμοῖσ. (Plutarch, Camillus, chapter 28 5:1)
  • ἔνατον ἆθλον Ἡρακλεῖ ἐπέταξε ζωστῆρα κομίζειν τὸν Ἱππολύτησ. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 2, chapter 5 9:1)
  • εἶχε δὲ Ἱππολύτη τὸν Ἄρεοσ ζωστῆρα, σύμβολον τοῦ πρωτεύειν ἁπασῶν. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 2, chapter 5 9:4)
  • ἐπὶ τοῦτον τὸν ζωστῆρα Ἡρακλῆσ ἐπέμπετο, λαβεῖν αὐτὸν ἐπιθυμούσησ τῆσ Εὐρυσθέωσ θυγατρὸσ Ἀδμήτησ. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 2, chapter 5 9:5)
  • καταπλεύσαντοσ δὲ εἰσ τὸν ἐν Θεμισκύρᾳ λιμένα, παραγενομένησ εἰσ αὐτὸν Ἱππολύτησ καὶ τίνοσ ἥκοι χάριν πυθομένησ, καὶ δώσειν τὸν ζωστῆρα ὑποσχομένησ, Ἥρα μιᾷ τῶν Ἀμαζόνων εἰκασθεῖσα τὸ πλῆθοσ ἐπεφοίτα, λέγουσα ὅτι τὴν βασιλίδα ἀφαρπάζουσιν οἱ προσελθόντεσ ξένοι. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 2, chapter 5 9:12)

Synonyms

  1. a girdle

  2. a woman's girdle

Related

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

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