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Meaning of Zonus | Babel Free

Noun masculine CEFR B1
[ˈzɔ.nʊs]

Definitions

A river flowing into the Caspian Sea, mentioned by Pliny; perhaps an alternative name for the Oxus (modern Amu Darya)

declension-2, masculine, singular

Examples

“inde per Anariacos, Amardos, Hyrcanos ad ostium Zoni fluminis IIII DCCC,”

thence, through the territories of the Anariaci, the Amardi, and the Hyrcani, to the mouth of the river Zonus he makes four thousand eight hundred stadia,

CEFR level

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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