sion

See also: Sion, -sion, Sión, Siôn, síon, Síón, and sìon

English

Noun

sion (plural sions)

1. Obsolete spelling of scion

Anagrams

• -osin, Ions, Ison, NOIs, Sino-, Soni, ions, ison, onis, sino-

Latin

Alternative forms

• sium

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek σίον (síon).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.on/, [ˈs̠iɔn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.on/, [ˈsiːon]

Noun

sion n (genitive siī); second declension

1. water parsley (Sium latifolium)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter, Greek-type).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	sion	sia
Genitive	siī	siōrum
Dative	siō	siīs
Accusative	sion	sia
Ablative	siō	siīs
Vocative	sion	sia

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