insitio Latin · revision 33540

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=234–149 BC, Cato|origins=ine-pro *si-sh1-e/o-}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''īnsitiō''' ''f'' (genitive īnsitiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|īnserō#1|-tiō|t1=to graft]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan lists the verb, “to plant, graft on”, under [[m|la|serō#1|t=to sow]], which goes back to [[itc-pro|*si-se/o-]] and [[ine-pro|*si-sh1-e/o-|t=to sow]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Cato has it first, in his book on farming: ''vitis insitio una est per ver'', there is one time for grafting the vine, in spring.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is the grafting of trees.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Varro writes of people who moved fig grafting from spring to summer, Cicero says that not only planting but grafting gives pleasure, and Lucretius that nature herself was the source of sowing and grafting.^(OLD 2012) Columella and Pliny the Elder use it in their rules for vines and trees.^(OLD 2012) It also came to mean the place of grafting and the grafted plant itself, both in Columella,^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) and Ovid uses it for the season of grafting.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Servius explains that grafting is of two kinds.^(TLL)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato, of grafting the vine in spring.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro, of grafting figs.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of the pleasure of grafting.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid, of the season of grafting.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century AD – Columella, of the graft and the place of grafting.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|grafting]] (of trees and vines).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # The place of grafting.^(OLD 2012)

+ # A grafted plant, a [[m|en|graft]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # The time of grafting.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[īnserō#1]]

+ * [[serō#1]]

+ * [[īnsitīvus]]

+ * [[satiō#2]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}