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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From the root of ζώννυμι (zṓnnumi), Proto-Indo-European *yeh₃s- (“gird”), + -τήρ (-tḗr).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /zdɔːs.tɛ̌ːr/ → /zosˈtir/ → /zosˈtir/
Noun
ζωστήρ • (zōstḗr) m (genitive ζωστῆρος); third declension
- warrior's belt
- girdle
Declension
Descendants
Further reading
- “ζωστήρ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ζωστήρ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ζωστήρ in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “ζωστήρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ζωστήρ”, 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.