sion

See also: Appendix:Variations of "sion"

English

Noun

sion (plural sions)

1. Obsolete spelling of scion.

Anagrams

• -osin, Ison, ison, Sino-, onis, ions, NOIs, Ions, OSNI, sino-, Soni

Latin

Alternative forms

• sium

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek σίον (síon).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsi.ɔn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsiː.on]

Noun

sion n (genitive siī); second declension

1. water parsley (Sium latifolium)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter, Greek-type).

	singular	plural
nominative	sion	sia
genitive	siī	siōrum
dative	siō	siīs
accusative	sion	sia
ablative	siō	siīs
vocative	sion	sia

References

• “sion”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "sion", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “1 sĭŏn ou sĭum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette: “1,447/3”
• “sion”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “sion”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• “sion”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “sion”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 974/1

Old English

Verb

sīon

1. alternative form of sēon