"zoster" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Neøn-zoster.wav Forms: zosters [plural]
Etymology: From Latin zōstēr, from Ancient Greek ζωστήρ (zōstḗr). Etymology templates: {{uder|en|la|zōstēr}} Latin zōstēr, {{der|en|grc|ζωστήρ}} Ancient Greek ζωστήρ (zōstḗr) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} zoster (countable and uncountable, plural zosters)
  1. (countable) An ancient Greek waist-belt for men. Tags: countable
    Sense id: en-zoster-en-noun-DGxO9juu Categories (other): English undefined derivations Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 48 52
  2. (uncountable, pathology) The disease called herpes zoster (from the typically beltlike pattern of its rash); shingles. Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-zoster-en-noun-FR9wOzwO Categories (other): Diseases, English entries with incorrect language header, English undefined derivations, Viral diseases Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 29 71 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 48 52 Disambiguation of Viral diseases: 23 77 Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: varicella zoster virus, zoster sine herpete Related terms: chicken pox

Noun [Latin]

Etymology: From Ancient Greek ζωστήρ (zōstḗr, “girdle”), from ζώννυμι (zṓnnumi, “to gird”). Etymology templates: {{der|la|grc|ζωστήρ||girdle}} Ancient Greek ζωστήρ (zōstḗr, “girdle”) Head templates: {{la-noun|zōstēr<3>|g=m}} zōstēr m (genitive zōstēris); third declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|zōstēr<3>}} Forms: zōstēr [canonical, masculine], zōstēris [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], zōstēr [nominative, singular], zōstērēs [nominative, plural], zōstēris [genitive, singular], zōstērum [genitive, plural], zōstērī [dative, singular], zōstēribus [dative, plural], zōstērem [accusative, singular], zōstērēs [accusative, plural], zōstēre [ablative, singular], zōstēribus [ablative, plural], zōstēr [singular, vocative], zōstērēs [plural, vocative]
  1. The shingles Tags: declension-3
    Sense id: en-zoster-la-noun-ORE5G-yn Categories (other): Diseases Disambiguation of Diseases: 69 31
  2. A kind of sea shrub Tags: declension-3
    Sense id: en-zoster-la-noun-U~IH91sy Categories (other): Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries, Latin entries with incorrect language header, Latin masculine nouns in the third declension, Plants Disambiguation of Pages with 3 entries: 25 31 2 43 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 19 35 1 45 Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 4 96 Disambiguation of Latin masculine nouns in the third declension: 34 66 Disambiguation of Plants: 34 66

Noun [Middle English]

Head templates: {{head|enm|noun}} zoster
  1. (Kent) Alternative form of suster Tags: Kent, alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: suster

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-05-19 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-05-01 using wiktextract (c3cc510 and 1d3fdbf). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.