Dictionary

radicate en · ADJ

Etymology

From Latin radicatus, past participle of radicari (“to take root”), from radix (“root”).

Meanings

1. Rooted; deep-seated; firmly established.
2. Having a root; growing from a root; (of a fungus) having rootlike outgrowths at the base of the stipe.
3. Fixed at the bottom as if rooted.

Deriveds

coradicate · multiradicate

radicate en · VERB

Etymology

From Latin radicatus, past participle of radicari (“to take root”), from radix (“root”).

Meanings

1. (rare, transitive) To cause to take root; to plant or establish firmly.
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To take root; to become established.
   • And for Ever - greens , especially such as are tender , prune them not after Planting , till they do radicate 1664, J[ohn] E[velyn], Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC:
3. (rare, transitive) To extract the root of a number.
   • Numbers, arithmetically, can be added, subtracted, multiplied and divided, exponentiated and radicated, […] 1972, Patrick Meredith, Dyslexia and the individual, page 36:

Forms

Antonyms

deracinate · eradicate · uproot

Deriveds

irradicate

Relateds

radication · radicable · radicative

Synonyms

root (to plant or establish firmly) · ingrain (to plant or establish firmly) · settle (to plant or establish firmly)

Translations (5)

ja 定着させる (to plant or establish firmly) · pl zakorzeniać (to plant or establish firmly) · pl zakorzenić (to plant or establish firmly) · it radicare (to plant or establish firmly) · ja 根付かせる (to plant or establish firmly)