transplanto

Forms

trānsplantō (present infinitive trānsplantāre, perfect active trānsplantāvī, supine trānsplantātum); first conjugation^[1]

Etymology

It is formed from Latin trāns- (“across”) + plantō (“to plant”), in Late Latin.^[1][2] Its earliest examples are in the Vulgate and in Sedulius.^[3][4]

Earliest recorded meaning

The earliest examples are in the Vulgate, where it means to transplant a tree or plant to another place: in Jeremiah 17:8, quasi lignum quod transplantatur, “like a tree that is transplanted”.^[3][5][6]

Semantic evolution

In the Vulgate it also means to remove or move something elsewhere, as in Luke 17:6, in mare (“into the sea”).^[3][4] Sedulius used it figuratively: transplantati di are human beings raised to the gods.^[3][4] Ecclesiastical Latin kept the senses “transplant, remove, move”.^[7]

From Late Latin it passed into English as transplant in the mid-15th century, first of plants and later of people and, from 1786, of tissue in surgery.^[2]

Timeline

• 390–406 AD – The Vulgate uses it of a tree planted elsewhere and of things removed to another place.^[3][5][8]
• first half of the 5th century AD – Sedulius calls deified human beings transplantati di.^[3][4][8]
• mid-15th century – English borrows it as transplant.^[2]

Meanings

Verb

1. To transplant, plant in another place.^[3][5][6]
2. To remove, move elsewhere.^[3][7]
3. (figurative) To raise to another state;^[3][4] transplantati di, deified human beings.^[3][4]

Related words

• English transplant

References

1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c Harper, Douglas. Online Etymology Dictionary, https://www.etymonline.com
3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
4. ^ a b c d e f Georges, Karl Ernst (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th ed., ed. Heinrich Georges, Hannover; Leipzig: Hahn
5. ^ a b c Gaffiot, Félix (2016), Dictionnaire latin-français, new ed. by Gérard Gréco et al. (Gaffiot 2016), online ed.
6. ^ a b Conte, Gian Biagio; Pianezzola, Emilio; Ranucci, Giuliano (2010), il Latino: Vocabolario della lingua latina, 3rd ed., Florence: Le Monnier
7. ^ a b Stelten, Leo F. (1995), Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Latin, Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson
8. ^ a b Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de