evzone
English
Etymology
From Greekεύζωνος (évzonos), from Ancient Greek εὔζωνος (eúzōnos, “girt for battle”), from εὖ (eû, “well”) + ζώνη (zṓnē, “girdle”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɛvzəʊn/
Noun
evzone (plural evzones or evzonoi or evzoni)
- A member of the Greek presidential guard.
- An infantryman of a select corps of the Greek army.
- 1905, Burton Holmes, The Wonders of Thessaly, The Burton Holmes Lectures: The Olympian Games in Athens; Grecian Journeys; The Wonders of Thessaly, page 242,
- The soldiers seen at various stations belong to the corps of the Greek army that proved itself most effective in the recent war, the Evzonoi.
- 1913, Percy Falcke Martin, Greece of the Twentieth Century, page 98:
- The best-paid Greek soldiers are the Evzonoi, their pay amounting to 12 lepta a day extra (that is to say, to 27 lepta net).
- 1918, George Ward Price, The Story of the Salonica Army, page 227:
- All this time little bands of rounded-up Evzones and men of the other regiment of the garrison were being brought in, together with news of the French losses.
- 1953 April, Our Cover, The Rotarian, page 4,
- That's an evzone on our cover this month — and an evzone, as you probably know, is a Greek soldier of a certain kind. Recruited from mountain districts of Greece, the evzones make up rifle units in the Greek Army — but are better known to tourists as the skirted lads who make up the Royal Palace Guard.
- 2010, Richard H. Kraemer, The Secret War in the Balkans: A WWII Memoir, page 107:
- The Evzones not only halted the invasion, but drove the Italians out of Greece and, by the onset of winter, occupied the southern quarter of Albania.
- 1905, Burton Holmes, The Wonders of Thessaly, The Burton Holmes Lectures: The Olympian Games in Athens; Grecian Journeys; The Wonders of Thessaly, page 242,
Translations
Greek soldier
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Further reading
Evzones on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
French
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Noun
evzone m (plural evzones)
- evzone
Further reading
- “evzone”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.