zona Latin · revision 4220

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=Plautus|origins=grc ζώνη}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈzoː.na]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈd͡zɔː.na]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''zōna''' ''f'' (genitive zōnae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|ζώνη|tr=zṓnē|t=belt, girdle]].^(OLD 2012)^(Saalfeld 1874)^(Wiktionary) The Greek word comes from [[ine-pro|*yoh₃snéh₂]], from [[ine-pro|*yeh₃s-|t=to gird]].^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) Isidore of Seville already called it a Greek word, equal to Latin [[cingulum]].^(Isidore)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus uses it of a man's girdle, in a line where someone is told to take a tunic and a girdle.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010) One Plautine manuscript reading has the spelling ''sōna''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It was a girdle worn by men to hold up the tunic, often with a pouch for money, and a woman's girdle; a girl's girdle stood for her virginity, so to loosen it meant to lose it, as in Catullus.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) From the astronomers it took the sense of the five bands circling the sky and the earth, in Virgil's ''quinque tenent caelum zonae''.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) It was also any encircling band, as on onyx in Pliny, and in Scribonius Largus the illness shingles.^(OLD 2012)

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+ In medieval British Latin it was still a belt or girdle, and also a girth for a horse.^(DMLBS) English ''zone'' is recorded in the late 14th century as a belt, from the Latin geographical and celestial sense.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of a man's girdle.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81/79–52/50 BC – Catullus uses the loosened girdle for loss of virginity.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil names the five celestial zones.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 47 AD – Scribonius Largus uses it of shingles.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * late 14th century – Borrowed into English as [[m|en|zone]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|girdle]] or [[m|en|belt]] worn by men, often holding money.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # A woman's girdle; a girl's girdle as a sign of virginity.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # One of the five [[m|en|zone|alt=zones]] of the sky and earth.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

+ # An encircling band or marking.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(medicine)'' [[m|en|shingles]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A girth for a horse.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[zōnālis]]

+ * [[zōnārius]]

+ * [[zōnātim]]

+ * [[zōnula]]

+ * [[septizōnium]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[cingulum]]

+ * [[en|zone]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}