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zonal (adj.)
1839, from Late Latin zonalis, from Latin zona (see zone (n.)).
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zone (n.)
late 14c., from Latin zona "geographical belt, celestial zone," from Greek zōnē "a belt, the girdle worn by women at the hips," from zōnnynai "to gird," from PIE root *yos- "to gird" (source also of Avestan yasta- "girt," Lithuanian juosiu, juosti "to gird," Old Church Slavonic po-jasu "girdle"). The 10c. Anglo-Saxon treatise on astronomy translates Latin quinque zonas as fyf gyrdlas.
Originally one of the five great divisions of the earth's surface (torrid, temperate, frigid; separated by tropics of Cancer and Capricorn and Arctic and Antarctic circles); meaning "any discrete region" is first recorded 1822. Zone defense in team sports is recorded from 1927.
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Definitions of zonal
zonal (adj.)
relating to or of the nature of a zone;
the zonal frontier
Synonyms: zonary
zonal (adj.)
associated with or divided into zones;
zonal division
a zonal pattern of cell structure
