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Pronunciation

  • Classical: [trãːˈspɫan.toː][1]
  • Ecclesiastical: [tranˈsplan.to][1]

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]

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