ζῳδίων (zodion)

ζῳδίων is an Ancient Greek form of ζωίδιον, meaning “small animal, figure”. It is the genitive plural neuter noun.

Found 59 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, De animae procreatione in Timaeo 31·2: … τῆς ἐκλειπτικῆς σκιᾶς τῆς διαμέτρου τῆς σελήνης τριπλάσιον ὃ δʼ ἐκτρέπεται πλάτος ἡ σελήνη τῆς διαμέτρου τῶν ζῳδίων ἐφʼ ἑκάτερα δωδεκάμοιρον. αἱ δὲ πρὸς ἥλιον σχέσεις αὐτῆς ἐν τριγώνοις καὶ τετραγώνοις ἀποστήμασι διχοτόμους κ …

Claudius Ptolemaeus, Tetrabiblos 1.11: Περὶ τροπικῶν καὶ ἰσημερινῶν καὶ στερεῶν καὶ δισώμων ζῳδιων Τούτων δὲ οὕτω προεκτεθέντων ἀκόλουθον ἂν εἴη συνάψαι καὶ τὰς αὐτῶν τῶν τοῦ ζωδιακοῦ δωδεκατημορίων παραδεδομ …

All forms of ζωίδιον (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.