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English

WOTD – 30 April 2009

Alternative forms

Variant spellings^[1]

<s‒vowel>-initial, <n>-terminal:
- (14^th century):
  - sioun
  - syoun
- (15^th century):
  - syon
  - siun
- (16^th century):
  - sien
  - sion
  - syen
  - syon
- (17^th century):
<c>-initial, <n>-terminal:
- (16^th century):
  - cion
- (17^th–18^th centuries):
  - cien
  - cion
  - cyen
  - cyon
- (19^th century–present day):
  - cion(now chiefly in botanical senses)
[s]- or [t]-terminal:
- (16^th century):
- (17^th century):
<sc>-initial, <n>-terminal:
- (14^th century):
  - scyon
- (15^th century):
  - scion
  - scioun
- (16^th century):
  - scion
- (17^th century):
  - scien
  - scion
  - scyen
- (18^th–19^th centuries):
  - scion
  - scyon
- (20^th century–present day):
  - scion(standard spelling)

Mangrove scion in Mono river estuary, Benin

Etymology

FromMiddle Englishsion,sioun,syon,scion,cion, fromOld Frenchcion,ciun,cyon,sion, fromFrankish*kīþō,*kīþ, fromProto-Germanic*kīþô,*kīþą,*kīþaz(“sprout”), fromProto-Indo-European*geye-(“to split open, sprout”), same source asOld Englishċīþ(“a young shoot; sprout; germ; sprig”),Old Saxonkīth(“sprout; germ”),Old High Germankīdi(“offshoot; sprout; germ”). See alsoFrenchscion andPicardchion.^[1]Doublet ofchit.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (Received Pronunciation)/ˈsaɪən/^[1]
(US)IPA^(key): /ˈsaɪ.ən/,/ˈsaɪ.ɑn/
Audio(US): (file)
Rhymes:-aɪən

Noun

scion (pluralscions)

Adescendant, especially a first-generation descendant of a distinguishedfamily.
- 1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter I, inThe Last Man. […], volume III, London:Henry Colburn, […],→OCLC,page15:
  No senate seats in council for the dead; noscion of a time honoured dynasty pants to rule over the inhabitants of a charnel house; the general's hand is cold, and the soldier has his untimely grave dug in his native fields, unhonoured, though in youth.
- 1956,Delano Ames, chapter 9, inCrime out of Mind‎^[1]:
  Rudolf was the bold, bad Baron of traditional melodrama. Irene was young, as pretty as a picture, fresh from a music academy in England. He was thescion of an ancient noble family; she an orphan without money or friends.
- 1966,Sholem Aleichem,An Early Passover, paperback edition, Clifton Pub. Co., page24:
  It was said to him that those people were thescions of Zion.
- 1986,David Leavitt,The Lost Language of Cranes, paperback edition, Penguin, page72:
  He could show his parents Eliot,scion of Derek Moulthorp, and then how could they say he was throwing his life away?
Theheir to athrone.
Aguardian.
(botany) A detachedshoot ortwig containingbuds from a woody plant, used ingrafting; ashoot ortwig in a general sense.
- 1613,G[ervase] M[arkham], “Of the Setting or Planting of the Cyons or Branches of Most Sorts of Fruit-trees”, inThe English Husbandman. The First Part: […], London: […] T[homas] S[nodham] for Iohn Browne, […],→OCLC, 2nd part (Contayning the Art of Planting, Grafting and Gardening, […],page132:
  [If] you finde a certaine miſlike or conſumption in the plant, you ſhall immediatly vvith a ſharp knife cut the plant off ſlope-vviſe upvvard, about three fingers from the ground, and ſo let it reſt till the next ſpring, at vvhich time you ſhall behold nevvcyons iſſue from the roote,[…]
- 2020,Hilary Mantel,The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page681:
  He used to think that the plums in this country weren’t good enough, and so he has reformed them, graftingscion to rootstock.

Translations

descendant

Bulgarian:пото́мък (bg) m(potómǎk)
Chinese:
Mandarin:子孫 /子孙 (zh)(zǐsūn)
Czech:potomek (cs) m
Dutch:telg (nl)
Finnish:vesa (fi),perillinen (fi)
French:descendant (fr) m,descendante (fr) f
German:Nachkomme (de) m,Nachkommin (de) f,Nachfahr (de) m,Nachfahre (de) m,Nachfahrin (de) f,Abkomme (de) m,Abkommin f,Nachkömmling m,Abkömmling (de) m,Spross (de) m,Sprössling (de) m
Greek:βλαστός (el) m(vlastós)
Ancient Greek:ἔρνος n(érnos)
Hebrew:נֵצֶר (he) m(nétzer)
Hungarian:leszármazott (hu),sarj (hu)
Irish:buinneán (ga) m,beangán m,dias f
Italian:discendente (it) m or f,rampollo (it) m
Japanese:子孫 (ja)(しそん, shison)
Korean:자손 (ko)(jason)
Latvian:atvase f,pēcnācējs (lv) f
Macedonian:потомок m(potomok),ластар m(lastar)
Malay:keturunan (ms)
Māori:tuwhanga,mangainga
Norwegian:etterkommer (no) m
Polish:latorośl (pl) f
Portuguese:descendente (pt),rebento (pt) m
Romanian:moștenitor (ro) m,vlăstar (ro),mlădiță (ro) f
Russian:пото́мок (ru) m(potómok),о́тпрыск (ru) m(ótprysk)
Serbo-Croatian:izdanak (sh) m,potomak (sh) m
Spanish:descendiente (es)
Swedish:efterkomma (sv) c
Tagalog:inanak
Ukrainian:наща́док m(naščádok)
Welsh:impyn m

heir to a throne

Bulgarian:престолонаследник m(prestolonaslednik)
Chinese:
Mandarin:繼承人 /继承人 (zh)(jìchéngrén)
Czech:následník (cs) m
Dutch:opvolger (nl) m,troonopvolger (nl) m
Estonian:troonipärija
Finnish:kruununperijä (fi)
French:héritier d'un trône
Galician:herdeiro (gl) m
German:Thronfolgerin (de) f,Thronfolger (de) m,Prinz (de) m,Prinzessin (de) f
Hungarian:trónörökös (hu)
Italian:erede al trono m
Japanese:御曹司 (ja)(おんぞうし, onzōshi)
Macedonian:наследник m(naslednik)
Norwegian:ætling m
Polish:następca tronu m,następczyni tronu f
Portuguese:herdeiro (pt) m
Russian:насле́дник (ru) m(naslédnik),насле́дница (ru) f(naslédnica)
Scottish Gaelic:oighre m
Serbo-Croatian:prijestolonasljednik (sh) m,prestolonaslednik m,prijestolonasljednica (sh) f,prestolonaslednica f
Spanish:heredero (es)
Swedish:ättling (sv) c
Turkish:veliaht (tr)
Welsh:etifedd m

(detached) shoot or twig

Bulgarian:издънка (bg) f(izdǎnka),филиз (bg) m(filiz)
Chinese:
Mandarin:幼芽 (zh)(yòuyá),嫩芽 (zh)(nènyá)
Czech:roub m
Dutch:scheut (nl)
Finnish:verso (fi),jaloverso,oksas
French:scion (fr)
Galician:gromo (gl) m,xermolo (gl) m,rebento (gl) m,inzo (gl) m,fillo (gl) m
German:Spross (de) m,Sprössling (de) m,Ableger (de) m,Pfropfreis n,Reis (de) n,Steckling (de) m
Greek:βλαστός (el) m(vlastós)
Hungarian:oltóág (hu),oltóvessző (hu),ráoltott nemes rész ,sarj (hu)
Irish:beangán m
Italian:talea (it) f,pollone (it) m
Japanese:接ぎ穂 (ja)(つぎほ, tsugiho, つぎぼ, tugibo)
Latin:tālea f
Norwegian:podekvist m,skudd n
Polish:latorośl (pl) f,winorośl (pl) f
Portuguese:enxerto (pt) m
Romanian:vlăstar (ro)
Russian:побе́г (ru) m(pobég),отро́сток (ru) m(otróstok)
Scottish Gaelic:faillean m
Serbo-Croatian:izdanak (sh) m
Spanish:vástago (es),púa (es),hijuelo (es) m
Swedish:ympkvist c
Welsh:blagur m pl

Trivia

One of the three common words ending in-cion, the other two beingcoercion andsuspicion.^[2]^[3]

References

↑^1.0^1.1^1.2“scion” listed in theOxford English Dictionary [2^nd Ed.; 1989]
^Notes and Queries, Vol. VI, No. 10, 1889, October,p. 365
^Editor and Publisher, Volume 9, 1909,p. 89

Further reading

“scion”, inLexico,Dictionary.com;Oxford University Press,2019–2022.

Anagrams

Coins,ICONs,Nicos,cions,coins,icons,sonic

Esperanto

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈst͡sion/
Audio: (file)
Rhymes:-ion
Syllabification:sci‧on

Noun

scion

accusative ofscio

French

Etymology

Inherited fromOld Frenchcion,ciun, fromFrankish*kiþō, fromProto-Germanic*kīþô,*kīþą, fromProto-Indo-European*geye-(“to split open, to sprout”). Spelling influenced byscie(“saw”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /sjɔ̃/
Audio(France (Lyon)): (file)
Homophones:scions,Sion

Noun

scion m (pluralscions)

scion (detached twig)
Synonym:greffon
tip of afishing rod

See also

(tip of fishing rod):canne

Further reading

“scion”, inTrésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language],2012

Irish

Pronunciation

(Ulster)IPA^(key): /ʃcɨ̞nˠ/,/ʃcɨ̞n̪ˠ/^[1]

Noun

scion f (genitive singularscine,nominative pluralsceana)

Ulster form ofscian(“knife”)

Declension

Declension ofscion (second declension)

bare forms
	singular	plural
nominative	scion	sceana
vocative	ascion	asceana
genitive	scine	sceana
dative	scion scin(archaic, dialectal)	sceana

forms with thedefinite article
	singular	plural
nominative	anscion	nasceana
genitive	nascine	nasceana
dative	leis anscion leis anscin(archaic, dialectal) donscion donscin(archaic, dialectal)	leis nasceana

References

^Quiggin, E. C. (1906),A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page41

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