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Latin
Etymology
From īnsitiō (“a graft, grafting”) + -tor.
Noun
īnsitor m (genitive īnsitōris); third declension
- a grafter, an ingrafter
77 CE – 79 CE,
Pliny,
Naturalis Historia 18.76.329:
- hic oleae timeatur vergiliarum quadriduo, hunc caveat insitor calamis gemmisque inoculator.
- and this wind in the four days of Pleiads is to be dreaded for the olive, and avoided for their slips by the grafter or for their buds by those engaged in budding.
Declension
Third-declension noun.
References
- “insitor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “insitor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- insitor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.