Zona, zonæ. Mart. A girdle.Tereti zona cinctus. Ouidi. Breuis zona constringit sinus Senec.Ligatam diu zonam soluere. Catull. Retinens vestem zona Senec. Solutæ zonæ. Hora. Zonam perdidit. Horat. He hath lost al his money: he hathe not a farthing left.Zonæ cœli. Plin. Circles imagined in the firmament.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
zōna (sōna, Plaut. Merc. 5, 2, 85 Ritschl), ae, f., = zw/nh, a belt, girdle, zone, worn about the loins by women (cf. cingulum). I.Lit., Cat. 2, 13; Ov. F. 2, 320; id. H. 2, 116; id. M. 5, 470; 10, 379; id. R. Am. 602; id. Am. 1, 7, 48 al.—II.Transf.A.A girdle worn by men for containing money, a money-belt (cf. crumena), C. Gracch. ap. Gell. 15, 12 fin.; Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 40.—B.The girdle or belt of Orion, a constellation, Ov. F. 6, 787.—C.A line running around the edge of a gem, a girdle, Plin. 37, 6, 24, 90.—D.One of the imaginary circles which divided the earth into five climates, a zone, Verg. G. 1, 233; Ov. M. 1, 46; 2, 131; Plin. 2, 68, 68, 172; Mel. 1, 1, 2; Macr. Somn. Scip. 1, 15, 13; 2, 5, 20; Mart. Cap. 6, 602.—E.A kind of herpes or erysipelas, which spreads about the body like a girdle, and destroys life, the shingles; called also zoster, Scrib. Comp. 63.