ζώνη

See also: Ζώνη

Ancient Greek

Related to ζώννῡμι (zṓnnūmi, “to gird”); ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *yeh₃s-neh₂, from the root *yeh₃s- (“gird”). Compare Old Church Slavonic (по)ꙗсъ ((po)jasŭ), Sanskrit रास्ना (rā́snā) (< *yā́snā).^[1]^[2]

ζώνη • (zṓnē) f (genitive ζώνης); first declension (Epic, Attic, Ionic, Doric, Koine)

First declension of ἡ ζώνη; τῆς ζώνης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ζώνη hē zṓnē	τὼ ζώνᾱ tṑ zṓnā	αἱ ζῶναι hai zônai
Genitive	τῆς ζώνης tês zṓnēs	τοῖν ζώναιν toîn zṓnain	τῶν ζωνῶν tôn zōnôn
Dative	τῇ ζώνῃ tēî zṓnēi	τοῖν ζώναιν toîn zṓnain	ταῖς ζώναις taîs zṓnais
Accusative	τὴν ζώνην tḕn zṓnēn	τὼ ζώνᾱ tṑ zṓnā	τᾱ̀ς ζώνᾱς tā̀s zṓnās
Vocative	ζώνη zṓnē	ζώνᾱ zṓnā	ζῶναι zônai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

^ Frisk, Hjalmar (1960) “ζώννυμι”, in Griechisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, pages 617–618
^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ζώννυμι, -μαι”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 504–505

From Ancient Greek ζώνη (zṓnē, “belt; loins, waist”).

ζώνη • (zóni) f (plural ζώνες)

belt, sash, seat belt
Δέσε τη ζώνη σου, σε παρακαλώ ― Dése ti zóni sou, se parakaló ― Fasten your seat belt, please

μαύρη ζώνη στο καράτε. ― mávri zóni sto karáte. ― black belt in karate.
zone
band
ζώνη συχνοτήτων ― zóni sychnotíton ― frequency band