insitio

Latin

Etymology

From īnserō (supine stem īnsit-) +‎ -tiō.

Noun

īnsitiō f (genitive īnsitiōnis); third declension

  1. (horticulture) graft
  2. grafting
    • 106 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Cato Maior de Senectute 15.54:
      Nec cōnsitiōnēs modo dēlectant sed etiam īnsitiōnēs, quibus nihil invēnit agrī cultūrā sollertius.
      It is not just the initial planting of crops that brings delight, but also [the art of] grafting — other than which agriculture has discovered nothing more ingenious.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative īnsitiō īnsitiōnēs
genitive īnsitiōnis īnsitiōnum
dative īnsitiōnī īnsitiōnibus
accusative īnsitiōnem īnsitiōnēs
ablative īnsitiōne īnsitiōnibus
vocative īnsitiō īnsitiōnēs

References

  • “insitio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “insitio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “insitio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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