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splice (v.)
1524, originally a sailors' word, from M.Du.
splissen
"to splice," ult. from PIE
*(s)plei-
"to split, splice" (see
flint
). The Du. word was borrowed in Fr. as
épisser
. Used of motion picture film from 1912; of DNA from 1975.
