"ζωστήρ" meaning in Ancient Greek

See ζωστήρ in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /zdɔːs.tɛ̌ːr/, /zosˈtir/, /zosˈtir/, /zdɔːs.tɛ̌ːr/ (note: 5ᵗʰ BCE Attic), /zosˈte̝r/ (note: 1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian), /zosˈtir/ (note: 4ᵗʰ CE Koine), /zosˈtir/ (note: 10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine), /zosˈtir/ (note: 15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan)
Etymology: From the root of ζώννυμι (zṓnnumi), Proto-Indo-European *yeh₃s- (“gird”), + -τήρ (-tḗr). Etymology templates: {{root|grc|ine-pro|*yeh₃s-}}, {{der|grc|ine-pro|*yeh₃s-||gird}} Proto-Indo-European *yeh₃s- (“gird”), {{suf|grc||-τήρ}} + -τήρ (-tḗr) Head templates: {{grc-noun|ζωστῆρος|m|third}} ζωστήρ • (zōstḗr) m (genitive ζωστῆρος); third declension Inflection templates: {{grc-decl|ζωστήρ|ζωστῆρος|form=M}} Forms: zōstḗr [romanization], ζωστῆρος [genitive], Attic declension-3 [table-tags], ὁ ζωστήρ [nominative, singular], ζωστῆρε [dual, nominative], οἱ ζωστῆρες [nominative, plural], τοῦ ζωστῆρος [genitive, singular], ζωστήροιν [dual, genitive], ζωστήρων [genitive, plural], τῷ ζωστῆρῐ [dative, singular], ζωστήροιν [dative, dual], τοῖς ζωστῆρσῐ [dative, plural], ζωστῆρσῐν [dative, plural], toîs zōstêrsĭ [dative, plural], toîs zōstêrsĭn [dative, plural], τὸν ζωστῆρᾰ [accusative, singular], ζωστῆρε [accusative, dual], τοὺς ζωστῆρᾰς [accusative, plural], ζωστήρ [singular, vocative], ζωστῆρε [dual, vocative], ζωστῆρες [plural, vocative]
  1. warrior's belt
    Sense id: en-ζωστήρ-grc-noun-dp5~37j4
  2. girdle
    Sense id: en-ζωστήρ-grc-noun-tzq5~w9T Categories (other): Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header, Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the third declension, Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -τήρ, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Clothing Disambiguation of Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header: 31 69 Disambiguation of Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the third declension: 30 70 Disambiguation of Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -τήρ: 25 75 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 17 83 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 8 92 Disambiguation of Clothing: 34 66
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: ζώνη (zṓnē), ζώννυμι (zṓnnumi), ζωστός (zōstós)

Inflected forms

{
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "la",
            "2": "zōstēr",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Latin: zōstēr",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Latin: zōstēr"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "zoster"
          },
          "expansion": "English: zoster",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "English: zoster"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "Zostera",
            "2": "genus"
          },
          "expansion": "Zostera",
          "name": "taxfmt"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "Zosterops",
            "2": "genus"
          },
          "expansion": "Zosterops",
          "name": "taxfmt"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "mul",
            "2": "Zostera",
            "3": "Zosterops"
          },
          "expansion": "Translingual: Zostera, Zosterops",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Translingual: Zostera, Zosterops"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*yeh₃s-"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*yeh₃s-",
        "4": "",
        "5": "gird"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *yeh₃s- (“gird”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "",
        "3": "-τήρ"
      },
      "expansion": "+ -τήρ (-tḗr)",
      "name": "suf"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From the root of ζώννυμι (zṓnnumi), Proto-Indo-European *yeh₃s- (“gird”), + -τήρ (-tḗr).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "zōstḗr",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ζωστῆρος",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Attic declension-3",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grc-decl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Third declension",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ὁ ζωστήρ",
      "roman": "ho zōstḗr",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ζωστῆρε",
      "roman": "zōstêre",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "nominative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "οἱ ζωστῆρες",
      "roman": "hoi zōstêres",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τοῦ ζωστῆρος",
      "roman": "toû zōstêros",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ζωστήροιν",
      "roman": "zōstḗroin",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ζωστήρων",
      "roman": "zōstḗrōn",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τῷ ζωστῆρῐ",
      "roman": "tôi zōstêrĭ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ζωστήροιν",
      "roman": "zōstḗroin",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τοῖς ζωστῆρσῐ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ζωστῆρσῐν",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "toîs zōstêrsĭ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "toîs zōstêrsĭn",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τὸν ζωστῆρᾰ",
      "roman": "tòn zōstêră",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ζωστῆρε",
      "roman": "zōstêre",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τοὺς ζωστῆρᾰς",
      "roman": "toùs zōstêrăs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ζωστήρ",
      "roman": "zōstḗr",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ζωστῆρε",
      "roman": "zōstêre",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ζωστῆρες",
      "roman": "zōstêres",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ζωστῆρος",
        "2": "m",
        "3": "third"
      },
      "expansion": "ζωστήρ • (zōstḗr) m (genitive ζωστῆρος); third declension",
      "name": "grc-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ζωστήρ",
        "2": "ζωστῆρος",
        "form": "M"
      },
      "name": "grc-decl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Ancient Greek",
  "lang_code": "grc",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "zṓnē",
      "word": "ζώνη"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "zṓnnumi",
      "word": "ζώννυμι"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "zōstós",
      "word": "ζωστός"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "warrior's belt"
      ],
      "id": "en-ζωστήρ-grc-noun-dp5~37j4",
      "links": [
        [
          "warrior",
          "warrior"
        ],
        [
          "belt",
          "belt"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "31 69",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "30 70",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the third declension",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "25 75",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -τήρ",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "17 83",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "8 92",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "34 66",
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "grc",
          "name": "Clothing",
          "orig": "grc:Clothing",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "girdle"
      ],
      "id": "en-ζωστήρ-grc-noun-tzq5~w9T",
      "links": [
        [
          "girdle",
          "girdle"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/zdɔːs.tɛ̌ːr/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/zosˈtir/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/zosˈtir/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/zdɔːs.tɛ̌ːr/",
      "note": "5ᵗʰ BCE Attic"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/zosˈte̝r/",
      "note": "1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/zosˈtir/",
      "note": "4ᵗʰ CE Koine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/zosˈtir/",
      "note": "10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/zosˈtir/",
      "note": "15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ζωστήρ"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Ancient Greek 2-syllable words",
    "Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header",
    "Ancient Greek lemmas",
    "Ancient Greek masculine nouns",
    "Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the third declension",
    "Ancient Greek nouns",
    "Ancient Greek oxytone terms",
    "Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "Ancient Greek terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *yeh₃s-",
    "Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -τήρ",
    "Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Ancient Greek third-declension nouns",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "grc:Clothing"
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "la",
            "2": "zōstēr",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Latin: zōstēr",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Latin: zōstēr"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "zoster"
          },
          "expansion": "English: zoster",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "English: zoster"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "Zostera",
            "2": "genus"
          },
          "expansion": "Zostera",
          "name": "taxfmt"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "Zosterops",
            "2": "genus"
          },
          "expansion": "Zosterops",
          "name": "taxfmt"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "mul",
            "2": "Zostera",
            "3": "Zosterops"
          },
          "expansion": "Translingual: Zostera, Zosterops",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Translingual: Zostera, Zosterops"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*yeh₃s-"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*yeh₃s-",
        "4": "",
        "5": "gird"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *yeh₃s- (“gird”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "",
        "3": "-τήρ"
      },
      "expansion": "+ -τήρ (-tḗr)",
      "name": "suf"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From the root of ζώννυμι (zṓnnumi), Proto-Indo-European *yeh₃s- (“gird”), + -τήρ (-tḗr).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "zōstḗr",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ζωστῆρος",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Attic declension-3",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grc-decl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Third declension",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ὁ ζωστήρ",
      "roman": "ho zōstḗr",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ζωστῆρε",
      "roman": "zōstêre",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "nominative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "οἱ ζωστῆρες",
      "roman": "hoi zōstêres",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τοῦ ζωστῆρος",
      "roman": "toû zōstêros",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ζωστήροιν",
      "roman": "zōstḗroin",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ζωστήρων",
      "roman": "zōstḗrōn",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τῷ ζωστῆρῐ",
      "roman": "tôi zōstêrĭ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ζωστήροιν",
      "roman": "zōstḗroin",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τοῖς ζωστῆρσῐ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ζωστῆρσῐν",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "toîs zōstêrsĭ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "toîs zōstêrsĭn",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τὸν ζωστῆρᾰ",
      "roman": "tòn zōstêră",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ζωστῆρε",
      "roman": "zōstêre",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τοὺς ζωστῆρᾰς",
      "roman": "toùs zōstêrăs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ζωστήρ",
      "roman": "zōstḗr",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ζωστῆρε",
      "roman": "zōstêre",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ζωστῆρες",
      "roman": "zōstêres",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ζωστῆρος",
        "2": "m",
        "3": "third"
      },
      "expansion": "ζωστήρ • (zōstḗr) m (genitive ζωστῆρος); third declension",
      "name": "grc-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ζωστήρ",
        "2": "ζωστῆρος",
        "form": "M"
      },
      "name": "grc-decl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Ancient Greek",
  "lang_code": "grc",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "roman": "zṓnē",
      "word": "ζώνη"
    },
    {
      "roman": "zṓnnumi",
      "word": "ζώννυμι"
    },
    {
      "roman": "zōstós",
      "word": "ζωστός"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "warrior's belt"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "warrior",
          "warrior"
        ],
        [
          "belt",
          "belt"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "girdle"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "girdle",
          "girdle"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/zdɔːs.tɛ̌ːr/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/zosˈtir/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/zosˈtir/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/zdɔːs.tɛ̌ːr/",
      "note": "5ᵗʰ BCE Attic"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/zosˈte̝r/",
      "note": "1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/zosˈtir/",
      "note": "4ᵗʰ CE Koine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/zosˈtir/",
      "note": "10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/zosˈtir/",
      "note": "15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ζωστήρ"
}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Ancient Greek dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-06-07 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-06-01 using wiktextract (92124b4 and f1c2b61). 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.