scion

Signification (Anglais)

1. A descendant, especially a first-generation descendant of a distinguished family.
2. The heir to a throne.
3. A guardian.
4. A detached shoot or twig containing buds from a woody plant, used in grafting; a shoot or twig in a general sense.

Concepts

descendant

rejeton

scion

surgeon

marcotte

pousse

greffe

brin

ente

descendante

héritier d'un trône

greffon

jeune

Synonymes

descendant

offspring

graft

sprout

heir

offshoot

shoot

slip

progeny

sprig

cion

bud

sapling

child

🧒

tilt

twig

offset

spear

splice

branchlet

scion wood

burgeon

graff

grafting

implant

inheritor

issue

lineage

outgrowth

plant

🌱

posterity

progeniture

rod

root

runner

🏃

seed

seedling

🌱

Traductions

vástago

Spross

descendiente

telg

retoño

Nachkomme

απόγονος

Abkömmling

púa

Ableger

discendente

βλαστός

Nachfahre

Sprössling

Nachfahr

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈsaɪən/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: sion

Appartenant à ancien anglais: ċīþ

Appartenant à Old Saxon: kīth

Appartenant à ancien haut allemand: kīdi

Appartenant à français: scion

Appartenant à picard: chion

In summary

From Middle English sion, sioun, syon, scion, cion, from Old French cion, ciun, cyon, sion, from Frankish *kīþō, *kīþ, from Proto-Germanic *kīþô, *kīþą, *kīþaz (“sprout”), from Proto-Indo-European *geye- (“to split open, sprout”), same source as Old English ċīþ (“a young shoot; sprout; germ; sprig”), Old Saxon kīth (“sprout; germ”), Old High German kīdi (“offshoot; sprout; germ”). See also French scion and Picard chion. Doublet of chit.