zoster

See also: zòster

English

Etymology

From Latin, from Ancient Greek ζωστήρ (zōstḗr).

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.

Derived terms

• varicella zoster virus
• zoster sine herpete

 

See also

• chicken pox

Latin

Etymology

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

Noun

zōstēr m (genitive zōstēris); third declension

1. The shingles
2. A kind of sea shrub

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	zōstēr	zōstērēs
genitive	zōstēris	zōstērum
dative	zōstērī	zōstēribus
accusative	zōstērem	zōstērēs
ablative	zōstēre	zōstēribus
vocative	zōstēr	zōstērēs

References

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

Middle English

Noun

zoster

1. (Kent) Alternative form of suster