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ζωστός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ζωστός ζωστή ζωστόν

Structure: ζωστ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: zw/nnumi

Sense

  1. girded

Examples

  • ταῦτα ἐπιστείλασ Παρμενίωνι τὸ κράνοσ περιέθετο, τὸν δὲ ἄλλον ὁπλισμόν εὐθὺσ ἀπὸ σκηνῆσ εἶχεν, ὑπένδυμα τῶν Σικελικῶν ζωστόν, ἐπὶ δὲ τούτῳ θώρακα διπλοῦν λινοῦν ἐκ τῶν ληφθέντων ἐν Ἰσσῷ. (Plutarch, Alexander, chapter 32 5:1)

Synonyms

  1. girded

Derived

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

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