ζ
ζ, ζῆτα (q.v.), τό, indecl., seventh (later sixth) letter of Gr. alphabet (cf. IG 14.2420): as numeral ζʹ
zd or as dz acc. to dialect and date), made a short vowel at the end of the foregoing syllable long by position; exc. before pr. names, which could not otherwise come into the hexam., ἄστῠ Ζελείης Il. 4.103, 121; ὑλήεσσᾰ Ζάκυνθος h.Ap. 429, etc.: afterwds. pronounced as Engl. z, cf. ζμῆνος PCair.Zen. 151.4 (iii B.C.), ζμύρνης ib. 9 (iii B.C.), ἀμφιζβήτησιν Mitteis Chr. 31 viii 6 (ii B.C.), cf. Ael.Dion. Fr. 187; sts. σζ was written, ἐνδέσζμους IG 2(2).1672.308 (iv B.C.), θυσιάσζειν IG 3.73.
No short def.
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ἕβδομος ( Ϛ, i.e. ϝ, ϝαῦ, the digamma, being retained to represent ἕξ, ἕκτος), but ͵ζ = 7,000.
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zd or as dz acc. to dialect and date), made a short vowel at the end of the foregoing syllable long by position; exc. before pr. names, which could not otherwise come into the hexam., ἄστῠ Ζελείης Il. 4.103, 121; ὑλήεσσᾰ Ζάκυνθος h.Ap. 429, etc.: afterwds. pronounced as Engl. z, cf. ζμῆνος PCair.Zen. 151.4 (iii B.C.), ζμύρνης ib. 9 (iii B.C.), ἀμφιζβήτησιν Mitteis Chr. 31 viii 6 (ii B.C.), cf. Ael.Dion. Fr. 187; sts. σζ was written, ἐνδέσζμους IG 2(2).1672.308 (iv B.C.), θυσιάσζειν IG 3.73.
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Il. 4.103
ἄστῠ Ζελείης
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h.Ap. 429
ὑλήεσσᾰ Ζάκυνθος
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PCair.Zen. 151.4
ζμῆνος
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