zizaniumとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ζιζάνιον (zizánion), ultimately from Sumerian ������ (zizān, “wheat”).

別の表記

• zizannium, zizania, zizannia

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /zizˈzaː.ni.um/, [d̪͡z̪ɪz̪ˈd̪͡z̪äːniʊ̃ˑ] or IPA^(key): /zizˈza.ni.um/, [d̪͡z̪ɪz̪ˈd̪͡z̪äniʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /d͡zidˈd͡za.ni.um/, [d̪͡z̪id̪ˈd̪͡z̪ɑːnium]
• Note: the /a/ is apparently long in Sumerian, as known in Classical Syriac ܙܝܙܢܐ‎ (zīzānā) and Arabic زِوَان‎ (ziwān), while it is short in Greek and the Latin scanning varies. The length of the /i/ before the underlyingly-geminate /z/ is unknown.

名詞

zizā̆nium n (genitive zizā̆niī または zizā̆nī); second declension

1. (Late Latin, often 複数形) cockle, tares, darnel (a weed, probably Lolium temulentum)
2. (Ecclesiastical Latin, figuratively) used metaphorically of vices such as jealousy, discord etc.
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   • c. 390 CE – c. 455 CE, Prosper Aquitanus, Carmen de ingratis 929, (hexameter):

     Spīnīs fulta subit seges horrida zizǎniōrum.

     Perishes the prickly crop of tares that grow from thorns.

   • 348 CE – c. 413 CE, Prudentius, The Divinity of Christ 56, (iambic):

     Refert sed ipsa nōsse, quae messem necant / zizāniōrum sēmina.

     Yet it's important for us to know the very seeds of the tares that kill the crop.