ζυγόν

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ζυγός (zugós)

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *dzugón, from Proto-Indo-European *yugóm.

Pronunciation

Noun

ζῠγόν • (zugón) n (genitive ζῠγοῦ); second declension

1. yoke, for joining animals
2. yoke, burden
3. in general, anything which joins two pieces together: cross-bar, plank, beam
4. the balancing beam of a scale; the scale itself
5. (astrology) the constellation Libra
6. rank (of soldiers)

Usage notes

• Along with ᾠόν (ōión), λουτρόν (loutrón), πτερόν (pterón) and ἑρπετόν (herpetón), this is one of the very few neuter nouns that does not have a recessive accent.

Inflection

Derived terms

• ζῠγουλκός (zugoulkós)
• ζυγόω (zugóō)
• ζυγωτός (zugōtós)

Descendants

• Greek: ζυγός (zygós)

References

• “ζυγόν”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ζυγόν”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• G2218 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• “ζυγόν”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ζυγόν in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ζυγόν in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “ζυγόν”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • couple idem, page 178.
  • pair idem, page 589.
  • scale idem, page 736.
  • strap idem, page 823.
  • yoke idem, page 996.