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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *dzugón, from Proto-Indo-European *yugóm.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /zdy.ɡón/ → /zyˈɣon/ → /ziˈɣon/
Noun
ζῠγόν • (zŭgón) n (genitive ζῠγοῦ); second declension
- yoke, for joining animals
- yoke, burden
- in general, anything which joins two pieces together: cross-bar, plank, beam
- the balancing beam of a scale; the scale itself
- (astrology) the constellation Libra
- 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.
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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.