köken: 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.
köken: Learned borrowing from Koine Greek μεταμόσχευσις (metamóskheusis) in the horticultural sense, with semantic loan from English transplantation in the surgical sense. By surface analysis, μεταμοσχεύω (metamoschévo) + -ση (-si).
köken: From Old Japanese. First cited in the Nihon Shoki of 720. Derived as the 連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb みやぶ (miyabu, “to be courtly, elegant, refined, high-quality”), in turn from 宮 (miya, “palace, imperial court”) + ぶ (bu, verb-forming suffix with a meaning of "to seem like, to have that quality").
köken: Etymology tree Latin ēlegāns Proto-Indo-European *-yós Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Latin ēlegantialbor. Polish elegancja Learned borrowing from Latin ēlegantia.
grafting (the act, art, or process of inserting grafts) · graft (a small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree) · graft (a branch or portion of a tree growing from such a shoot)