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‖ parazonium Gr. Antiq.|pærəˈzəʊnɪəm|
Also 7 anglicized as parazon, -zone.
[L. (Martial), ad. Gr. παραζώνιον = παραζωνίδιον a dagger worn at the girdle, from παραζωνίδιος at the girdle, f. παρά beside + ζώνη girdle, belt.]
A small sword or dagger worn at the girdle by the ancient Greeks; also applied by mediæval writers to similar weapons.
1623Cockeram, Parazon, a wood-knife. [So 1658 in Phillips.] 1674Blount Glossogr. (ed. 4), Parazone (parazonium), a Dagger, Fauchon, or Short Sword. 1850J. Leitch tr. C. O. Müller's Anc. Art §414 (ed. 2) 579 The Athenian Anakes..in chlamydes with parazonia, on a sardonyx as amulet. 1874Boutell Arms & Arm. iii. 49 A weapon..in general use by all classes of Greek soldiers, is a short sword or dagger, called parazonium (belt-companion), which sometimes was reduced to the proportions of a knife. |