The corpus record — Latin

zona

zona · f

a belt

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Where it lives

Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 7.24/10k
Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 2 · 5.49/10k
Pescennius Niger 1 · 4.39/10k
Vitellius 1 · 4.15/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 3 · 3.96/10k
Eclogarum Liber 1 · 3.65/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 3 · 3.55/10k
de bello Gildonico 1 · 3.16/10k
De Pallio 1 · 2.92/10k
Truculentus 2 · 2.44/10k
Remedia Amoris 1 · 1.91/10k
Hercules Oetaeus 2 · 1.78/10k

Densest 12 of 47 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. zōna — Lewis & Short

zōna (sōna, ae, f., = zw/nh,

Plaut. Merc. 5, 2, 85 Ritschl),

I a belt, girdle, zone, worn about the loins by women (cf. cingulum).

I Lit., Cat. 2, 13; Ov. F. 2, 320; id. H. 2, 116; id. M. 5, 470; 10, 379; id. R. Am. 602; id. Am. 1, 7, 48 al.—

II Transf.

A A girdle worn by men for containing money, a money-belt (cf. crumena), C. Gracch. ap. Gell. 15, 12 fin.; Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 40.—

B The girdle or belt of Orion, a constellation, Ov. F. 6, 787.—

C A line running around the edge of a gem, a girdle, Plin. 37, 6, 24, § 90.—

D One of the imaginary circles which divided the earth into five climates, a zone, Verg. G. 1, 233; Ov. M. 1, 46; 2, 131; Plin. 2, 68, 68, § 172; Mel. 1, 1, 2; Macr. Somn. Scip. 1, 15, 13; 2, 5, 20; Mart. Cap. 6, § 602.—

E A kind of herpes or erysipelas, which spreads about the body like a girdle, and destroys life, the shingles; called also zoster, Scrib. Comp. 63.

2. zöna — Walde–Hofmann

zöna, -ae f. „Gürtel“ (seit Plaut.) nebst Abltgg.: entl. aus gr. Zuvn; zönärium Nov. — gr. Zuvdpiov (Schwyzer WuS. 12,339) zünütim s. persóna. . Nachtrag zu Lief. 13, S. 150 oben. 5 návüs, alat. gnäous (vgl. Albin. gr. VII 302, 26 und unten) ,emsig, regsam, tatkräftig, unverdrossen" (seit Enn., Titin., Rhet. Her., Cic., Adv. nár£ seit Plaut., (g)näviter seit Ter.; nävo, -äre „betreibe _ eifrig* seit Cic., ebenso … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. zöna, p. 1759]

In the wild

zonam Claudian, de consulatu Stilichonis 2.7
zona Petronius, Satyricon 114
zonarumque Ovid, Metamorphoses 2.131
zonam Vitruvius, De Architectura 9.4.6.p2
zonam Plautus, Persa 1.3
zona Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 107.3

6 of 81 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. zona (scan pp. 783-785; entry #13071).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. zöna (scan pp. 1759-1769; entry #3377). Root candidates: *jen-.

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