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Originally a neuter plural form (see zizā̆nium), which could be subject to a highly productive process of reinterpretation as collective feminine singular.
Note: the /a/ is apparently long in Sumerian, unattested in Greek, scanned variously in Latin. The length of the /i/ before the underlyingly-geminate /z/ is unknown.
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.
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)
