injerto

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See also: injertó

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /inˈxeɾto/
  • Rhymes: -eɾto
  • Syllabification: in‧jer‧to

Etymology 1

Deverbal from injertar or semi-learned borrowing from Latin īnsertus (literally “inserted”), later "grafted" by confusion between homonymous īnserō (“to insert”) (perfect passive participle īnsertus) and īnserō (“to graft”) (perfect passive participle īnsitus). Compare also enjerto and inserto, from the same source.

Noun

injerto m (plural injertos)

  1. (horticulture) grafting
  2. (horticulture, surgery) graft

Etymology 2

Verb

injerto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of injertar

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