radicate
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Latin radicatus, past participle of radicari (“to take root”), from radix (“root”).
Verb[edit]
radicate (third-person singular simple present radicates, present participle radicating, simple past and past participle radicated)
- (transitive, rare) To cause to take root; to plant or establish firmly.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To take root; to become established.
- 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:
- And for Ever - greens , especially such as are tender , prune them not after Planting , till they do radicate
- (transitive, arithmetic, rare) To extract the root of a number.
- 1972, Patrick Meredith, Dyslexia and the individual, page 36:
- Numbers, arithmetically, can be added, subtracted, multiplied and divided, exponentiated and radicated, […]
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Translations[edit]
to plant or establish firmly
References[edit]
- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “radicate”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
Adjective[edit]
radicate
- Rooted; deep-seated; firmly established.
- (botany) Having a root; growing from a root; (of a fungus) having rootlike outgrowths at the base of the stipe.
- (zoology) Fixed at the bottom as if rooted.
References[edit]
- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “radicate”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
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Etymology 1[edit]
Verb[edit]
radicate
- inflection of radicare:
Etymology 2[edit]
Participle[edit]
radicate f pl
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Latin[edit]
Adjective[edit]
rādīcāte
Spanish[edit]
Verb[edit]
radicate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of radicar combined with te
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