zizania

See also: Zizania

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin zizania (“cockle, tares”)

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪniə

Noun

zizania (plural zizanias)

1. Any of several aquatic North American grasses, of the genus Zizania, grown for their edible grain; wild rice.

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Latin

FWOTD – 3 February 2016

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek ζιζάνια (zizánia).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /zizˈza.ni.a/, [d̪͡z̪ɪz̪ˈd̪͡z̪äniä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /d͡zidˈd͡za.ni.a/, [d̪͡z̪id̪ˈd̪͡z̪äːniä]

• Audio (Classical):

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zīzania (cockle, tares)

Noun

zizania n pl (genitive zizaniōrum); second declension

1. (Ecclesiastical Latin) cockle, tares, darnel (a weed, probably Lolium temulentum)
   • (Can we find and add a quotation of Ambrose to this entry?)
   • Aurelius Augustine, Sermon 47, 5.

     Quamvis et ipsi servi stomachati adversus zizania, consilium tamen et praeceptum a domino expetiverunt.

   • (Can we find and add a quotation of Prudentius to this entry?)
   • 5th century — Vulgate Bible, Matthaeus 13:26

     cum autem crevisset herba et fructum fecisset tunc apparuerunt et zizania.

     But when the blade sprang up and brought forth fruit, then also appeared the tares.

   • 1267, anonymous, Scribere proposui:

     Scribere proposui de contemptu mundano
     iam est hora surgere de sonpno mortis uano ·
     zizaniam spernere sumpto ui[r]tutum grano ·
     Surge surge uigila semper esto paratus ·

     I have set forth to write of contempt of the world.
     Now is the hour to arise from the vain sleep of death,
     to scorn the tares, choosing the grain of virtue:
     Arise, arise, be vigilant, always be prepared.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter), plural only.

Case	Plural
Nominative	zizania
Genitive	zizaniōrum
Dative	zizaniīs
Accusative	zizania
Ablative	zizaniīs
Vocative	zizania

Descendants

• English: zizania
• Italian: zizzania
• Spanish: cizaña
• Translingual:

References

• “zīzā̆nĭa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ZIZANIA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• ZIZANIUM in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• 1 zīzānĭa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette: “1,701/3”
• 2 zīzănĭa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette: “1,701/3”