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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ζώννυμι (zṓnnumi, “to gird”) + -μα (-ma, result noun suffix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /zdɔ̂ː.ma/ → /ˈzo.ma/ → /ˈzo.ma/
Noun
ζῶμᾰ • (zôma) n (genitive ζώμᾰτος); third declension
- loincloth, drawers, worn next the body in a boxing contest
- (surgery) band used in surgery
- woman's girdle
Inflection
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Further reading
- “ζῶμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ζῶμα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ζῶμα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ζῶμα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ζῶμα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963