zonary, adj.

zonary
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First published 1921; not fully revised

# zonaryadjective

## Earlier version

- zonary, a. in OED Second Edition (1989)

## Factsheet

### What does the adjective zonary mean?

There are two meanings listed in OED's entry for the adjective zonary. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.

#### Entry status

OED is undergoing a continuous programme of revision to modernize and improve definitions. This entry has not yet been fully revised.

### How common is the adjective zonary?

Fewer than 0.01occurrences per million words in modern written English

1880 | 0.026
1890 | 0.024
1900 | 0.022
1910 | 0.024
1920 | 0.02
1930 | 0.018
1940 | 0.015
1950 | 0.013
1960 | 0.011
1970 | 0.0099
1980 | 0.0055
1990 | 0.0044
2000 | 0.0034
2010 | 0.0024

### How is the adjective zonary pronounced?

#### British English

/ˈzəʊn(ə)ri/
ZOHN-uh-ree

#### U.S. English

/ˈzoʊnəri/
ZOH-nuhr-ee

### Where does the adjective zonary come from?

Earliest known use

1880s

The earliest known use of the adjective zonary is in the 1880s.

OED's only evidence for zonary is from 1881, in the writing of St. George Mivart, zoologist and Roman Catholic polemicist.

zonary is formed within English, by derivation.

Etymons: zone n., ‑ary suffix1.

### Nearby entries

1. zona, n. 1706–
2. zona ignea, n. 1818–
3. zonal, adj. 1867–
4. zonality, n. 1909–
5. zonally, adv. 1873–
6. zonal marking, n. 1958–
7. zona pellucida, n. 1841–
8. zona radiata, n. 1881–
9. zona reticularis, n. 1874–
10. zonarious, adj. 1656–
11. zonary, adj.1881–
12. zonate, adj. 1866–
13. zonated, adj. 1803–
14. zonation, n. 1898–
15. zone, n. a1500–
16. zone, v. 1792–
17. zone centre | zone center, n. 1934–
18. zoned, adj. 1662–
19. zone defence | zone defense, n. 1927–
20. zone electrophoresis, n. 1952–
21. zone fossil, n. 1904–

## Etymology

### Summary

Formed within English, by derivation.
< zone n. + ‑ary suffix1.

## Meaning & use

1. 1.
   1881–
   Having the form of a zone or girdle: applied to the placenta in certain mammals, as the Carnivora, forming a broad girdle round the chorion.
   1. 1881

      > Though the Rodents have a deciduate placenta, it is never zonary.

      St. G. Mivart, Cat 472
   embryology
   1. placentary 1734–
      Anatomy and Zoology.
   2. placental 1785–
      Of or relating to a placenta or placentas. Anatomy and Zoology.
   3. succenturiate 1838–
      Anatomy and Zoology. Of various anatomical structures or their parts: subsidiary, accessory; spec. designating a part of a placenta that is…
   4. diffuse 1856–
      Embryology. Designating a (type of) placenta in which the villi (villus, n. 2) are widely scattered.
   5. aplacental 1859–
      Having no placenta.
   6. zonary 1881–
      Having the form of a zone or girdle: applied to the placenta in certain mammals, as the Carnivora, forming a broad girdle round the chorion.
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2. 2.
   Occurring in a zone or zones, i.e. within definite limits of depth (see zone n. 7).

## Pronunciation

### British English

/ˈzəʊn(ə)ri/
ZOHN-uh-ree

### U.S. English

/ˈzoʊnəri/
ZOH-nuhr-ee

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##### Consonants

- ppea
- ttea
- kkey
- bbuy
- ddye
- ɡguy
- tʃchore
- dʒjay
- ffore
- θthaw
- ssore
- ʃshore
- vvee
- ðthee
- zzee
- ʒbeige
- xloch
- hhay
- llay
- ɬrhingyll
- rray
- wway
- jyore
- mmay
- nnay
- ŋsing

Some consonants can take the function of the vowel in unstressed syllables. Where necessary, a syllabic marker diacritic is used, hence /ˈpɛtl/ but /ˈpɛtl̩i/.

##### Vowels

- iːfleece
- ihappy
- ɪkit
- ɛdress
- atrap, bath
- ɑːstart, palm, bath
- ɒlot
- ɔːthought, force
- ʌstrut
- ʊfoot
- uːgoose
- əletter
- əːnurse
- ɪənear
- ɛːsquare
- ʊəcure
- eɪface
- ʌɪpride
- aʊmouth
- əʊgoat
- ɔɪvoice
- ãgratin
- ɒ̃salon
- ᵻ(/ɪ/-/ə/)
- ᵿ(/ʊ/-/ə/)

##### Other symbols

- The symbol ˈ at the beginning of a syllable indicates that that syllable is pronounced with primary stress.
- The symbol ˌ at the beginning of a syllable indicates that that syllable is pronounced with secondary stress.
- Round brackets ( ) in a transcription indicate that the symbol within the brackets is optional.

View the pronunciation model here.

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##### Consonants

- ppea
- ttea
- kkey
- bbuy
- ddye*
- ɡguy
- tʃchore
- dʒjay
- ffore
- θthaw
- ssore
- ʃshore
- vvee
- ðthee
- zzee
- ʒbeige
- xloch
- hhay
- llay
- rray
- wway
- jyore
- mmay
- nnay
- ŋsing

* /d/ also represents a 'tapped' /t/ as in

Some consonants can take the function of the vowel in unstressed syllables. Where necessary, a syllabic marker diacritic is used, hence /ˈpɛd(ə)l/ but /ˈpɛdl̩i/.

##### Vowels

- ifleece, happy
- ɪkit
- ɛdress
- ætrap, bath
- ɑlot, palm, cloth, thought
- ɑrstart
- ɔcloth, thought
- ɔrnorth, force
- ʊfoot
- ugoose
- əstrut, comma
- ərnurse, letter
- ɪ(ə)rnear
- ɛ(ə)rsquare
- ʊ(ə)rcure
- eɪface
- aɪpride
- aʊmouth
- oʊgoat
- ɔɪvoice
- ɑ̃gratin
- æ̃salon
- ᵻ(/ɪ/-/ə/)
- ᵿ(/ʊ/-/ə/)

##### Other symbols

- The symbol ˈ at the beginning of a syllable indicates that that syllable is pronounced with primary stress.
- The symbol ˌ at the beginning of a syllable indicates that that syllable is pronounced with secondary stress.
- Round brackets ( ) in a transcription indicate that the symbol within the brackets is optional.

View the pronunciation model here.

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Simple text respell breaks words into syllables, separated by a hyphen. The syllable which carries the primary stress is written in capital letters. This key covers both British and U.S. English Simple Text Respell.

##### Consonants

b, d, f, h, k, l, m, n, p, r, s, t, v, w and z have their standard English values

- gguy
- jjay
- yyore
- chchore
- khloch
- shshore
- ththaw
- dhthee
- zhbeige

##### Vowels

- atrap
- ahpalm
- airsquare
- arstart
- arrcarry (British only)
- awthought
- ayface
- a(ng)gratin
- edress
- eefleece
- eerdeer
- errmerry
- ikit
- ighpride
- irrmirror
- olot (British only)
- ohgoat
- oogoose
- oorcure
- orforce
- orrsorry (British only)
- owmouth
- oyvoice
- o(ng)salon
- ustrut
- uhletter
- urnurse
- urrhurry
- uufoot

## Frequency

zonary typically occurs fewer than 0.01 times per million words in modern written English.

zonary is in frequency band 2, which contains words occurring between 0.001 and 0.01 times per million words in modern written English. More about OED's frequency bands

Frequency data is computed programmatically, and should be regarded as an estimate.

### Frequency of zonary, adj., 1880–2010

* Occurrences per million words in written English

Historical frequency series are derived from Google Books Ngrams (version 2), a data set based on the Google Books corpus of several million books printed in English between 1500 and 2010.

The overall frequency for a given word is calculated by summing frequencies for the main form of the word, any plural or inflected forms, and any major spelling variations.

For sets of homographs (distinct entries that share the same word-form, e.g. mole, n.¹, mole, n.², mole, n.³, etc.), we have estimated the frequency of each homograph entry as a fraction of the total Ngrams frequency for the word-form. This may result in inaccuracies.

Smoothing has been applied to series for lower-frequency words, using a moving-average algorithm. This reduces short-term fluctuations, which may be produced by variability in the content of the Google Books corpus.

Decade | Frequency per million words
--- | ---
1880 | 0.026
1890 | 0.024
1900 | 0.022
1910 | 0.024
1920 | 0.02
1930 | 0.018
1940 | 0.015
1950 | 0.013
1960 | 0.011
1970 | 0.0099
1980 | 0.0055
1990 | 0.0044
2000 | 0.0034
2010 | 0.0024

zonary, adj. was first published in 1921; not fully revised.

zonary, adj. was last modified in July 2023.