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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

  • καὶ γὰρ ἦσαν ὑπὲρ τοῦ μὴ διασπᾶσθαι τὴν τάξιν οἱ πρόμαχοι μακραῖσ ἁλύσεσι πρὸσ ἀλλήλουσ συνεχόμενοι διὰ τῶν ζωστήρων ἀναδεδεμέναισ· (Plutarch, Caius Marius, chapter 27 1:2)
  • ζωστήρων γοῦν καὶ ὑποδημάτων τὸ τελευταῖον οὐκ ἀπέσχοντο καὶ τὰ δέρματα τῶν θυρεῶν ἀποδέροντεσ ἐμασῶντο. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 221:2)
  • καὶ ἀπὸ μὲν Σκύθεω τοῦ Ἡρακλέοσ γενέσθαι τοὺσ αἰεὶ βασιλέασ γινομένουσ Σκυθέων, ἀπὸ δὲ τῆσ φιάλησ ἔτι καὶ ἐσ τόδε φιάλασ ἐκ τῶν ζωστήρων φορέειν Σκύθασ· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 4, chapter 10 3:1)

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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