zodiaque

From Old French zodiaque.

• IPA^(key): /zɔ.djak/

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• Homophone: Zodiac

zodiaque m (plural zodiaques)

1. zodiac (belt-like region in the sky)
2. zodiac (collectively, the signs of the zodiac)

• signe du zodiaque
• zodiacal

• “zodiaque”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Old French zodiaque.

zodiaque m (plural zodiaques)

1. (Jersey, astronomy, astrology) zodiac

From Latin zōdiacus, from Ancient Greek ζῳδιακός [κύκλος] (zōidiakós [kúklos], “circle of little animals”), from ζῴδιον (zōídion), the diminutive of ζῷον (zōîon, “animal”).

zodiaque oblique singular, m (oblique plural zodiaques, nominative singular zodiaques, nominative plural zodiaque)

1. zodiac
   • 1377, Bernard de Gordon, Fleur de lis de medecine (a.k.a. lilium medicine), page 169 of this essay:

     c’est il ainsy quant aus signes du zodiaque la tierce condicion y est necessaire

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• French: zodiaque
• Norman: zodiaque
• → Middle English: zodiak
  • English: zodiac
• → Classical Gaelic: stoidiace
  • Irish: stoidiaca