Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /ziz̚zánion/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ziz̚zánion/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /zizánion/

Noun

ζιζάνιον • ‎(zizánion) n ‎(genitive ζιζανίου); second declension

1. type of weed — probably darnel, ryegrass — Lolium temulentum

Declension

Derived terms

• ζιζανοσπορεύς ‎(zizanosporeús)
• ζιζανιοσπόρος ‎(zizaniospóros)
• ζιζανώδης ‎(zizanṓdēs)

Descendants

• Greek: ζιζάνιο n ‎(zizánio, “weed”)

References

• ζιζάνιον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ζιζάνιον in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «ζιζάνιον» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• “G2215”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill