syon
See also: syön
English edit
Noun edit
syon
- Obsolete spelling of scion
- 1483, Sidney John Hervon Herrtage, Catholicon Anglicum, page 341:
- A Syon̄ or A twige ; Aborigo & proprie est pluralis Numeri, vitulamen, frutex, & cetera ; vbi twigge (A.).
- 1513, Virgil, Maffeo Vegio, and Bishop Gawin Douglas [tr.], Eneados, book 3?, lines 19–22; reprinted in:
- 1874, Bishop Gawin Douglas and John Small [ed.], The poetical works of Gavin Douglas, bishop of Dunkeld : with memoir, notes, and glossary, page 120 〃, 〃 (W. Paterson)
- Bot eftir that the thrid syon of treis,
- Apon the sandis sittand on my kneis,
- I schupe to haue wprevin with mair preise,
- Quhidder sall I speik now, or hald my peice ?
- Bot eftir that the thrid syon of treis,
Anagrams edit
Middle English edit
Noun edit
syon (plural syons or maybe syonys)
- Alternative spelling of sioun
- offshoot
- circa 1450: Gertrude Mechthild?, The booke of gostlye grace of Mechtild of Hackeborn, page 330/2
- In þe vyneȝerde were syonys of the vyne plantede.
- ante 1475: Grafting; reprinted in:
- 1855, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Early English miscellanies: in prose and verse, writ IX, page 72
- Also, he that wylle have rosys tymely to blowe, dewe heme abowte the space of ij. hand-brede, and moyste her syons oft tymys with hoote water.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- circa 1450: Gertrude Mechthild?, The booke of gostlye grace of Mechtild of Hackeborn, page 330/2
- descendant
- circa 1350–1390: [early poem], lines 25–28; reprinted in:
- 1878, Carl Horstmann, Altenglische Legenden, page 10:
- OÞer þou maiȝt wel diuise
Þe nome of Ambros in þis wyse :
Ambrum is to seye fadur of liht,
And syon a luytel child ful riht.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- offshoot
Old French edit
Noun edit
syon oblique singular, m (oblique plural syons, nominative singular syons, nominative plural syon)