zoster

From Latin zōstēr, from Ancient Greek ζωστήρ (zōstḗr).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈzɑstɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈzɒstə/

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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.

• chicken pox

From Ancient Greek ζωστήρ (zōstḗr, “girdle”), from ζώννυμι (zṓnnumi, “to gird”).

zōstēr m (genitive zōstēris); third declension

1. The shingles
2. A kind of sea shrub

Third-declension noun.

• “zoster”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

zoster

1. (Kent) alternative form of suster