different between scion vs kindred

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle English sion, sioun, syon, scion, cion, from Old French cion, ciun, cyon, sion; from Frankish *k?þ?, *k?þ, from Proto-Germanic *k?þô, *k?þ?, *k?þaz (“sprout”), from Proto-Indo-European *geye (“to split open, sprout”), same source as Old English ??þ (“a young shoot; sprout; germ; sprig”), Old Saxon k?th (“sprout; germ”), Old High German k?di (“offshoot; sprout; germ”). See also French scion and Picard chion. Doublet of chit.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?sa??n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?sa?.?n/, /?sa?.?n/
• Rhymes: -a??n

Noun

scion (plural scions)

1. A descendant, especially a first-generation descendant of a distinguished family.
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.

Translations

Trivia

One of three common words ending in -cion, the other two being coercion and suspicion.

Further reading

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

References

Anagrams

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

French

Etymology

From Old French cion, ciun, from Frankish *kith?, from Proto-Germanic *k?þô, *k?þ?, from Proto-Indo-European *geye- (“to split open, to sprout”). Spelling influenced by scie (“saw”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sj??/

Noun

scion m (plural scions)

1. scion (detached twig)
2. tip of a fishing rod

Synonyms

• (detached twig): greffon

See also

• (tip of fishing rod): canne

Further reading

• “scion” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From Middle English kindrede, alteration (with epenthetic d) of kinrede, cünreden (“kindred”), from Old English cynr?d, cynr?den (“kindred, family, generation, posterity, stock, species”), from cynn (“kind, sort, quality, race, family, rank, gender”) + -r?den (“condition, state”), equivalent to kin +? -red. More at kin.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?k?ndr?d, ?k?ndr?d, IPA^(key): /?k?nd??d/, /?k?nd??d/

Noun

kindred (countable and uncountable, plural kindreds)

1. (often plural only) Distant and close relatives, collectively; kin. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
2. (often plural only) People of the same ethnic descent, not including speaker; brethren.
3. (countable) A grouping of relatives.
4. (uncountable) Blood relationship.
5. (uncountable) Affinity, likeness.
6. (countable, Germanic paganism) A household or group following the modern pagan faith of Heathenry or Ásatrú.

   Synonyms: hearth, garth, stead

Synonyms

• (people of same ethnic descent): brethren, kinship

Translations

Adjective

kindred (not comparable)

1. Of the same nature, or of similar character.
   • 1924, Aristotle, Metaphysics, translated by W. D. Ross, Nashotah, Wisconsin, USA: The Classical Library, 2001, book 1, part 1.

     We have said in the Ethics what the difference is between art and science and the other kindred faculties;

2. Connected, related, cognate, akin.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:akin

Translations

Anagrams

• drinked