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English
Noun
sion (plural sions)
- Obsolete spelling of scion
Anagrams
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From the Ancient Greek σίον (síon).
Pronunciation
Noun
sion n (genitive siī); second declension
- water parsley (Sium latifolium)
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter, Greek-type).
References
- “sion”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- sion 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 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