transplant English · revision 39768

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=c1440, Palladius on Husbondrie|origins=la trāns, la plantō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * /tɹɑːnzˈplɑːnt/, /tɹænzˈplɑːnt/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|enm|transplaunten]], [[bor|la-lat|trānsplantō|t=to plant again in another place]],^(AHD 2024)^(OED 2026)^(Etymonline)^(Klein 1966)^(Hoad 1986) formed from [[la|trāns|t=across]], the source of [[trans-]], and [[m|la|plantō|t=to plant]], the source of [[plant]].^(Etymonline)^(AHD 2024)^(MWU 2024)^(SOED 2002) Barnhart and the American Heritage Dictionary also take it through [[m|frm|transplanter]],^(Barnhart 1988)^(AHD 2024) which the OED dates only to the 16th century.^(OED 2026)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ To dig up a plant and set it in another place or soil: about 1440, in the translation of Palladius on husbandry,^(OED 2026)^(Barnhart 1988) the mid-15th century in Etymonline,^(Etymonline) and 1400–50 in Dictionary.com.^(Dictionary.com 2016)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The verb was extended to people in 1555, to move a person or a colony from one country to settle in another,^(OED 2026)^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline) and Johnson (1755) quoted a use of it for emigrants to the plantations.^(Johnson 1755) The intransitive sense, to emigrate, is recorded from 1608 but is obsolete.^(OED 2026)^(Etymonline) In surgery it has meant to transfer an organ or tissue from one part of the body, or from one body, to another since 1786.^(OED 2026)^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline) The noun is recorded from 1756, of a transplanted seedling,^(OED 2026)^(Etymonline)^(MWU 2024) and in surgery for the operation from 1951;^(OED 2026)^(Etymonline) Etymonline notes that it came into wide use after Christiaan Barnard's heart transplant in 1967.^(Etymonline) In American use a ''transplant'' is also a person living somewhere other than their native place (1961).^(OED 2026)^(MWU 2024)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c1440 – to replant elsewhere.^(OED 2026)^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * 1555 – to move people to settle in another place.^(OED 2026)^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * 1608 – (obsolete) to emigrate.^(OED 2026)

+ * 1756 – noun, a transplanted seedling.^(OED 2026)^(MWU 2024)

+ * 1786 – (surgery) to transfer an organ or tissue.^(OED 2026)^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * 1951 – noun, a transplant operation.^(OED 2026)

+ * 1961 – (US) a person living away from their native place.^(OED 2026)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To dig up a [[plant]] and replant it somewhere else.^(Collins 2023)^(MWU 2024)

+ # (surgery) To transfer an [[organ]] or [[tissue]] from one body, or one part of the body, to another.^(Collins 2023)^(MWU 2024)

+ # To move a person or group to live in another place: ''The firm transplanted its whole staff to Leeds.''^(MWU 2024)^(OED 2026)

+ # Of a plant, to survive being moved.^(Collins 2023)^(OED 2026)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # (surgery) An operation in which an organ or tissue is transplanted; also, the organ or tissue itself: ''a kidney transplant''.^(Collins 2023)^(MWU 2024)

+ # A plant that has been transplanted.^(MWU 2024)^(OED 2026)

+ # (US) A person who has moved to a place from elsewhere: ''a New York transplant living in Denver''.^(MWU 2024)^(OED 2026)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[transplantable]]

+ * [[transplantation]]

+ * [[transplanter]]

+ * [[transplantability]]

+ * [[retransplant]]

+ * [[untransplanted]]

+ * [[homotransplant]]

+ * [[transplantee]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[plant]]

+ * [[implant]]

+ * [[supplant]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}