ζωστήρ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From the root of ζώννυμι (zṓnnumi), Proto-Indo-European *yeh₃s- (“gird”), +‎ -τήρ (-tḗr).

Pronunciation
 

Noun

ζωστήρ • (zōstḗr) m (genitive ζωστῆρος); third declension

  1. warrior's belt
  2. girdle

Declension
Third declension of ὁ ζωστήρ; τοῦ ζωστῆρος (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὁ ζωστήρ
ho zōstḗr		 τὼ ζωστῆρε
tṑ zōstêre		 οἱ ζωστῆρες
hoi zōstêres
Genitive τοῦ ζωστῆρος
toû zōstêros		 τοῖν ζωστήροιν
toîn zōstḗroin		 τῶν ζωστήρων
tôn zōstḗrōn
Dative τῷ ζωστῆρῐ
tôi zōstêri		 τοῖν ζωστήροιν
toîn zōstḗroin		 τοῖς ζωστῆρσῐ / ζωστῆρσῐν
toîs zōstêrsi(n)
Accusative τὸν ζωστῆρᾰ
tòn zōstêra		 τὼ ζωστῆρε
tṑ zōstêre		 τοὺς ζωστῆρᾰς
toùs zōstêras
Vocative ζωστήρ
zōstḗr		 ζωστῆρε
zōstêre		 ζωστῆρες
zōstêres
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants
  • → Latin: zōstēr
  • Translingual: Zostera, Zosterops

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.
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