ζιζάνιον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Loaned through an Aramaic form attested as Jewish Babylonian Aramaic זזניא‎, זזנייא‎, Mishnaic Hebrew זזנין‎, Classical Syriac ܙܺܽܝܙܳܢܳܐ‎ (zīzānā, “ryegrass”), from Sumerian 𒍣𒍝𒀭 (zizān, “wheat”). See also living Arabic زِوَان‎ (ziwān) for the term’s semantic range.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /zdiz.dá.ni.on/ → /ziˈza.ni.on/ → /ziˈza.ni.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /zdiz.dá.ni.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ziˈza.ni.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ziˈza.ni.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ziˈza.ni.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ziˈza.ni.on/

Noun

ζῐζᾰ́νῐον • (zizánion) n (genitive ζῐζᾰνῐ́ου); second declension

1. darnel, ryegrass (Lolium temulentum)

   Synonyms: αἶρα (aîra), θύαρος (thúaros)

Declension

Second declension of τὸ ζῐζᾰ́νῐον; τοῦ ζῐζᾰνῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ζῐζᾰ́νῐον tò zizánion	τὼ ζῐζᾰνῐ́ω tṑ zizaníō	τᾰ̀ ζῐζᾰ́νῐᾰ tà zizánia
Genitive	τοῦ ζῐζᾰνῐ́ου toû zizaníou	τοῖν ζῐζᾰνῐ́οιν toîn zizaníoin	τῶν ζῐζᾰνῐ́ων tôn zizaníōn
Dative	τῷ ζῐζᾰνῐ́ῳ tôi zizaníōi	τοῖν ζῐζᾰνῐ́οιν toîn zizaníoin	τοῖς ζῐζᾰνῐ́οις toîs zizaníois
Accusative	τὸ ζῐζᾰ́νῐον tò zizánion	τὼ ζῐζᾰνῐ́ω tṑ zizaníō	τᾰ̀ ζῐζᾰ́νῐᾰ tà zizánia
Vocative	ζῐζᾰ́νῐον zizánion	ζῐζᾰνῐ́ω zizaníō	ζῐζᾰ́νῐᾰ zizánia
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ζῐζᾰνοσπορεύς (zizanosporeús)
• ζῐζᾰνώδης (zizanṓdēs)
• ζῐζᾰνῐοσπόρος (zizaniospóros)

 

Descendants

• Greek: ζιζάνιο n (zizánio, “weed”)
• → Latin: zizanium, zizannium, zizania, zizannia
  • → Catalan: zitzània
  • → English: zizania
  • → Italian: zizzania
  • Spanish: cizaña
  • Translingual: Zizania

References

• “ζιζάνιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ζιζάνιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ζιζάνιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• G2215 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
• Löw, Immanuel (1881) Aramæische Pflanzennamen‎^[1] (in German), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, pages 133–134
• Löw, Immanuel (1896), “Bemerkungen zu ‚Schwally’s Idioticon‘”, in Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes‎^[2] (in German), volume 10, page 137
• Löw, Immanuel (1928) Die Flora der Juden‎^[3] (in German), volume 1, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, pages 723–729