a wide upper garment
a wide upper garment, girded about the loins and falling over the feet, worn by Arabians, Hdt. 7.69; by Thracians, ib. 75, X. An. 7.4.4: ζιραί Hsch.; but ζειρά is prescribed by Gramm. in Reitzenstein Ind.Lect.Rost. 1892/3p.10.
The corpus record
ζειρά
zeira · ἡ
a wide upper garment
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Where it lives
- Anabasis 1 · 0.18/10k
- Histories 2 · 0.11/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- ζειρὰς · zeiras Herodotus, Histories 7.69.1 (DIORISIS sentence 7497)
- ζειρὰς · zeiras Herodotus, Histories 7.75.1 (DIORISIS sentence 7523)
- ζειρὰς · zeiras Xenophon, Anabasis 7.4.4 (DIORISIS sentence 3411)
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.