ἔμφυτος

From ἐμφῠ́ω (emphŭ́ō, “implant”) +‎ -τος (-tos), from ἐν- (en-, “in”) +‎ φῠ́ω (phŭ́ō, “bring forth, produce”).

ἔμφῠτος • (émphŭtos) m or f (neuter ἔμφῠτον); second declension

1. inborn, natural
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 9.94
   • 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 1671
   • 480 BCE – 406 BCE, Euripides, Fragments 776.1
   • 342 BCE – 290 BCE, Menander 15.1D
   • 385 BCE – 380 BCE, Plato, Symposium 191d
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedrus 237d
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes 60.1
   • 361 BCE – 291 BCE, Dinarchus, Collected Works 1.108
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Wisdom of Solomon 12.10
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Eryxias 398c
   • 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Collected Works 33.7
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates of Kos, Aphorisms 1.14
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Meteorology 355b9B
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes 18.203
   • 280 BCE – 220 BCE, Philo of Byzantium, Fragments 70H
2. planted
3. implanted
   • New Testament, Epistle of James 1:21

• → Late Latin: inpotus (Salic law)
  • ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *imputō, *imptō
    • Old French: *empter
      • French: enter
    • → Proto-West Germanic: *impōn (see there for further descendants)

• “ἔμφυτος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἔμφυτος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἔμφυτος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἔμφυτος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• G1721 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • characteristic idem, page 125.
  • congenital idem, page 160.
  • constitutional idem, page 165.
  • deep idem, page 203.
  • hereditary idem, page 397.
  • implant idem, page 421.
  • in-born idem, page 426.
  • in-bred idem, page 427.
  • ingrained idem, page 440.
  • inherent idem, page 440.
  • innate idem, page 442.
  • instinctive idem, page 446.
  • native idem, page 551.
  • natural idem, page 551.