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
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /zdiz.dá.ni.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ziˈza.ni.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ziˈza.ni.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ziˈza.ni.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ziˈza.ni.on/
Noun
ζῐζᾰ́νῐον • (zizánion) n (genitive ζῐζᾰνῐ́ου); second declension
Declension
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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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 | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ζῐζᾰνοσπορεύς (zizanosporeús)
- ζῐζᾰνώδης (zizanṓdēs)
- ζῐζᾰνῐοσπόρος (zizaniospóros)
Descendants
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 (in German), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, pages 133–134
- Löw, Immanuel (1896) “Bemerkungen zu ‚Schwally’s Idioticon‘”, in Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes (in German), volume 10, page 137
- Löw, Immanuel (1928) Die Flora der Juden (in German), volume 1, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, pages 723–729
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