The corpus record — Latin

zoster

zoster · m

A kind of herpes

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Where it lives

Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant — Lewis & Short

1. zoster

zoster, ēris, m., = zwsth/r (a girdle).

I A kind of herpes, the shingles (cf. zona, II. E.), Plin. 26, 11, 74, § 121.—

II A kind of sca shrub (called also prason), Plin. 13, 25, 48, § 135.

2. Zoster

Zoster, ēris, m.,

I a promontory, town, and harbor of Attica; the promontory is now called C. Lombarda, Cic. Att. 5, 12 init.

In the wild

zoster Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 26.11.p9
zoster Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.13.p62

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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