English

Noun

zoster ‎(countable and uncountable, plural zosters)

1. (countable) An ancient Greek waist-belt for men.
2. (uncountable, pathology) The disease called herpes zoster (from the typically beltlike pattern of its rash); shingles.

See also

• chicken pox

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ζωστήρ ‎(zōstḗr, “girdle”).

Noun

zōstēr m ‎(genitive zōstēris); third declension

1. The shingles
2. A kind of sea shrub

Inflection

Third declension neuter “pure” i-stem.

References

• zoster in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• zoster in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia
• zoster in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• zoster in William Smith., editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• zoster in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976) The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press