Meaning of zizanium | Babel Free

Definitions

1. cockle, tares, darnel (a weed, probably Lolium temulentum)
   Late-Latin, declension-2, often, plural
2. used metaphorically of vices such as jealousy, discord etc.
   Ecclesiastical, Latin, declension-2, figuratively

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Examples

“Quamvis et ipsi servi stomachati adversus zizania, consilium tamen et praeceptum a domino expetiverunt.”

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“Spīnīs fulta subit seges horrida zizǎniōrum.”

Perishes the prickly crop of tares that grow from thorns.

“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.

“5th century — Vulgate Bible, Matthaeus 13:26”

But when the blade sprang up and brought forth fruit, then also appeared the tares.

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