injerto

See also: injertó

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /inˈxeɾto/ [ĩŋˈxeɾ.t̪o]
  • 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
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

injerto

  1. first-person singular present indicative of injertar

Further reading

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.