 The word comes from the Italian "zuzzulino" and Arabic "djoudjolân" "sesame seed" as "zizolin" (1599, 1617), or the Spanish "cinzolino" and Italian "giuggiolena", hence the term "gingeolin", because you can get a stain from this seed.This explanation goes back to Gilles Ménage, who also mentions a Latin derivation of "zinzolin" from "hysiginium", a plant mentioned by Pliny, and its diminutive "hysiginolinum".This etymology has not always been popular, since Michel Eugène Chevreul says "Ginjolin (or gingeolin)