greffe

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁɛf/

Inherited from Old French groife, greife, from Latin graphium (“stylus”), later influenced by greffier (“clerk”).

greffe m (plural greffes)

1. (law) court clerk's office, court registrar's office
2. (obsolete) court clerk, court registrar

• (clerk): greffier

greffe

Metaphorical use of Old French grefe, grafe (“stylus, pencil”), from the root of above.

greffe f (plural greffes)

1. (horticulture) graft, scion
2. (medicine) organ transplant, autoplasty
3. (medicine) a piece of graft

• greffon

• “greffe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Old French grefe, grafe, from Latin graphium.

greffe f (plural greffes)

1. (Jersey) graft, transplant

• (graft): ente

• greffer (“to graft, transplant”)

• greffeux (“grafting knife”)