radicate

English

Etymology

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

Verb

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.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Evelyn to this entry?)
(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, […]

Synonyms

(to plant or establish firmly): root, settle, ingrain

Antonyms

eradicate
uproot
deracinate

Related terms

radication
radicable
radicative

Translations

to plant or establish firmly

Italian: radicare

Japanese: 根付かせる (nedukaseru), 定着させる (ja) (teichaku saseru)

References

“radicate” in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, →ISBN.

Adjective

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

“radicate” in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, →ISBN.

Anagrams

acardite, air cadet

Italian

Verb

radicate

second-person plural present indicative of radicare
second-person plural imperative of radicare
feminine plural of radicato

Anagrams

cardiate

Latin

Adjective

rādīcāte

vocative masculine singular of rādīcātus