planta.
cutting, heel, young shoot detached for propagation; seedling, young plant; sole (of foot); (esp. as placed on ground in standing/treading); foot;
Meaning & usage
any vegetable production that serves to propagate the species; a sprout, shoot, twig, sprig, sucker, graft, scion, slip, cutting
a young tree, a shrub that may be transplanted; a set
sole of the foot
Where this word comes from
Either: * from Proto-Italic *plāntā, from Proto-Indo-European *pléh₂-n̥t-eh₂, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat”). * from Proto-Italic *plānktā, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₂nk/gteh₂, from *pleh₂k-, *pleh₂g- (“to strike, fast”) (similar to *peh₂ǵ- (“to attach, fix, fasten”), whence the similarly meaning prōpāgō (“to propagate, extend, release”)). Cognate with plangō (“to strike, beat, flap”), Ancient Greek πλήσσω (plḗssō, “to strike, smite”). The original meaning is "sole of the foot"; the meanings of the type "shoot of a plant, etc." are thought to belong to an originally separate word planta that was back-formed to an unattested verb *plantāre, which meant "to level the earth (with the sole of the foot)" or "to plant crops (with the sole of the foot)".
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