Sión

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Czech

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin Sion, from Koine Greek Σιών (Siṓn), from Biblical Hebrew צִיּוֹן (ṣiyyôn).

Proper noun

Sión m inan

  1. Mount Zion (mountain in Israel)

Declension

This proper noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

  • Sion”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • Sión”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Old Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin Sion, from Koine Greek Σιών (Siṓn), from Biblical Hebrew צִיּוֹן (ṣiyyôn).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Sión m

  1. Zion (a hill in Jerusalem, Israel)
    • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 67d14
      Amal rund·gab slíab Sión andes ⁊ antúaid du⟨n⟩ chath⟨raig⟩ dïa dítin, sic rund·gabsat ar ṅdá thoíb du dítin ar n-inmedónach-ni.
      As Mount Sion is located on the south and the north of the city to protect it, so are our two sides there to protect our insides.

Descendants

  • Irish: Síón

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
Sión Ṡión unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Spanish

Alternative forms

Etymology

See Sion.

Proper noun

Sión

  1. (Christianity) Zion