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zona f. (Noun) "zone" 15th cent. From Latin zona "belt," "zone;" borrowed from Ancient Greek ζώνη ‎(zdóne) "belt," "zone." The meaning of belt is original. From Proto-Indo-European *i̯eh₃s-neh₂ "girdle." From the root *i̯eh₃s- "to gird." Indo-European Romance Galician zona, Catalan zona, French zone, Italian zona, Romanian zonă Beekes, R. S. P. Etymological Dictionary of Greek. BRILL. 2014. Corominas, J. & J. Pascual. Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e híspanico. 6 vols. Madrid: Gredos. 1991-1997. Real Academia Española. Diccionario de la lengua española. Online. 23rd ed. Madrid: Espasa Calpa. 2014. http://www.rae.es/. Sihler, A. New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin. Oxford University Press. 2008.