zizanie
Appearance
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin zīzania (“tares, cockle”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]zizanie f (plural zizanies)
- discord; ill-feeling
- 1882, Émile Zola, Pot-Bouille[1]:
- On ne nomma pas Berthe; seulement, Valérie laissa entendre que toute la zizanie venait de cette femme, car il n’y avait jamais eu un mot désagréable dans la famille, avant qu’elle y fut entrée pour la déshonorer.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “zizanie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Greek ζιζάνιο (zizánio).
Noun
[edit]zizanie f (plural zizanii)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | ||||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
nominative-accusative | zizanie | zizania | zizanii | zizaniile | |
genitive-dative | zizanii | zizaniei | zizanii | zizaniilor | |
vocative | zizanie, zizanio | zizaniilor |
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