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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

  • τὸν ἱππευτάν τ’ Ἀμαζό‐ νων στρατὸν Μαιῶτιν ἀμφὶ πολυπόταμον ἔβα δι’ Ἄ‐ ξεινον οἶδμα λίμνασ, τίν’ οὐκ ἀφ’ Ἑλλανίασ ἄγορον ἁλίσασ φίλων, κόρασ Ἀρείασ πέπλων χρυσεόστολον φάροσ, ζωστῆροσ ὀλεθρίουσ ἄγρασ. (Euripides, Heracles, choral, strophe 31)
  • τίσ οὖν μᾶλλον ἐν τῷ σχολαστικῷ βίῳ τούτῳ κατεγήρασεν ἢ Χρύσιπποσ καὶ Κλεάνθησ καὶ Διογένησ καὶ Ζήνων καὶ Ἀντίπατροσ, οἵ γε καὶ τὰσ αὑτῶν κατέλιπον πατρίδασ, οὐδὲν ἐγκαλοῦντεσ ἀλλ’ ὅπωσ καθ’ ἡσυχίαν ἐν τῷ Ωἰδείῳ καὶ ἐπὶ Ζωστῆροσ σχολάζοντεσ καὶ φιλολογοῦντεσ διάγωσιν; (Plutarch, De Stoicorum repugnantiis, section 2 7:1)
  • Πενθεὺσ μὲν φεῦγεν πεφοβημένοσ, αἱ δ’ ἐδίωκον, πέπλωσ ἐκ ζωστῆροσ ἐπ’ ἰγνύαν ἐρύσαισαι. (Theocritus, Idylls, 7)
  • καί τισ ἀνὴρ ἐν τούτῳ Σκύθησ, ὄνομα Ὀλκάβασ, αὐτόμολοσ ὢν ἐσ Λεύκολλον ἐκ πολλοῦ, καὶ παρὰ τήνδε τὴν ἱππομαχίαν πολλοὺσ περισώσασ, καὶ δι’ αὐτὸ παρὰ τοῦ Λευκόλλου τραπέζησ τε καὶ γνώμησ καὶ ἀπορρήτων ἀξιούμενοσ, ἧκεν ἐπὶ τὴν σκηνὴν αὐτοῦ περὶ μεσημβρίαν ἀναπαυομένου, καὶ ἐσελθεῖν ἐβιάζετο, βραχὺ καὶ σύνηθεσ ἐπὶ τοῦ ζωστῆροσ ἐγχειρίδιον περικείμενοσ. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 12 1:13)
  • ἣ δὲ τόσον μὲν ἐέργεν ἀπὸ χροὸσ ὡσ ὅτε μήτηρ παιδὸσ ἐέργῃ μυῖαν ὅθ’ ἡδέϊ λέξεται ὕπνῳ, αὐτὴ δ’ αὖτ’ ἴθυνεν ὅθι ζωστῆροσ ὀχῆεσ χρύσειοι σύνεχον καὶ διπλόοσ ἤντετο θώρηξ. (Homer, Iliad, Book 4 13:2)

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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