English → Latin
“root” in Latin
rādīxroot (of a plant); radish; lower part of an object; rootstirpsrootstock; the lowest part of the trunk of a plant, including the roots.; a plant, shrub, shoot, sprout; lineage, race, causacause, reason; case, claim, contention; cause, judicial process, lawsuitsēmenseed (of plants); semen; graftfōnswater issuing from the ground, a spring; the water or waters of a river, sea etc.; a well, fountain or font (a large conrādīculalittle root, rootletcapiōto take, to capture, to catch, to seize, to take captive, to storm; to take on, adopt; to hold, to containmittōto send, dispatch, cause to go, let go, release, discharge; to put out, extend, reach out (one's hand); to announce, telrādīcōto take rootīnsideōto sit down, in or upon; to be seated or rest in or upon; to be fixed or stamped in; adhere to; to be situated upon, sta
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
root s.
PROP., radix: stirps (the root, with the whole of the lower part of a tree). A little root, radicula. To take root, pull up by the roots; Vid: the verb.
Figuratively, radix: stirps: causa: semen: fons. [Vid: also, CAUSE, ORIGIN.]
In grammar, vocabulum primitivum (grammatical).
root
(itself)(itself), v., radicem or radices agere (also IMPROP., Cic., Off., 2, 12, 43), capere or mittere: radicari (only PROP.): in radices exire [radicescere only once, Sen., Ep., 86, fin.] : insidere: inveterascere (figuratively, to become inveterate; the former of something suspected; the latter of a custom or evil). To let anything root itself, favere or alere (figuratively): the tree is deeply rooted, radices arboris altius descenderunt: to be deeply rooted, altissimis radicibus defixum esse: rooted, radicatus: quod radices egit (PROP.): inveteratus: confirmatus: deeply-rooted, penitus defixus (IMPROP.; of faults, etc.): penitus insitus (of an opinion, implanted): there he stood as if rooted in the ground, defixus stabat (†): the Gauls stood as if rooted in the earth by fear, pavor defixerat cum admiratione Gallos.
To root out or up, (α) PROP., eradicare: exstirpare: radicitus evellere, extrahere, evellere et extrahere: eruere (dig up): runcare (hoe up weeds). (β) Figuratively, exstirpare: delere: exstinguere: excidere. To root anything up or out thoroughly, alicujus rei radices evellere et extrahere penitus; omnes alicujus rei stirpes ejicere; aliquid funditus tollere. (The words are found in this connection and order.) exstirpare et lunditus tollere (e.g., superstition; the last also of faults, passions, etc.): e natura rerum evellere (annihilate): to root out a nation [Vid: EXTIRPATE]: to root all human feeling out of anybody’s heart, omnem humanitatem ex animo alicujus exstirpare.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for root?
- The usual Latin words for “root” are rādīx, stirps, causa; also sēmen, fōns, rādīcula. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.