Zacynthus

American  

[zuh-kin-thuhs, -sin-] / zəˈkɪn θəs, -ˈsɪn- /

noun

1. Latin name of Zante.

---

Zacynthus British  

/ -ˈkɪn-, zəˈsɪnθəs /

noun

1. the Latin name for Zante

---

Example Sentences

In the smaller islands, such as Ithaca and Zacynthus, the population had become Hellenized at the time of the composition of the Homeric poems.

From The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)

He could not live without her; he would never return alone to Zacynthus; he was resolved to abandon his fortune rather than never to see her more.

From Sónnica by Blasco Ibáñez, Vicente

For all the noblest that are princes in the isles, in Dulichium and Same and wooded Zacynthus, and as many as lord it in rocky Ithaca, all these woo my mother and waste my house.

From The Odyssey Done into English prose by Lang, Andrew

Last night, those who were watching up there in the temple of Hercules saw a serpent glide from beneath the tomb of Zacynthus, hissing as if it were wounded.

From Sónnica by Blasco Ibáñez, Vicente

And at the time when she was making for Pherae, exulting in the breeze from Zeus, there appeared to them below the clouds the steep mountain of Ithaca, and Dulichium and Same and wooded Zacynthus.

From Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Evelyn-White, Hugh G. (Hugh Gerard)