SCIENCE, SCION

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Etymology

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.^[1] Doublet of chit.

Noun

scion (plural scions)

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

Translations

show ▼±descendant

show ▼±heir to a throne

show ▼±(detached) shoot or twig

Trivia

One of three common words ending in -cion, the other two being coercion and suspicion.^[2][3]

References

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

Further reading

• “scion”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Anagrams

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