take root

take root

English

Verb

take root (third-person singular simple present takes root, present participle taking root, simple past took root, past participle taken root)

1. (intransitive, literally) To grow roots into soil.

   Those tulip bulbs have taken root.

2. (intransitive, figuratively) To become established, to take hold.

   The new regulations have yet to take root.

   • 1599, Much Ado About Nothing, by William Shakespeare, Act 1 Scene 3

     You have of late stood out against your brother, and he hath ta'en you newly into his grace; where it is impossible you should take true root but by the fair weather that you make yourself: it is needful that you frame the season for your own harvest.

Translations

to grow roots into soil

Catalan: arrelar (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 生根 (zh) (shēnggēn) Finnish: juurtua (fi) French: prendre racine (fr), raciner (fr) Galician: enraizar (gl) Greek: ριζοβολώ (el) (rizovoló), ριζώνω (el) (rizóno) Japanese: 根付く (ja) (ねづく, nezuku)

Korean: please add this translation if you can Latin: rādīcō Portuguese: enraizar (pt) Romanian: înrădăcina (ro) Russian: принима́ться (ru) impf (prinimátʹsja), приня́ться (ru) pf (prinjátʹsja), пуска́ть ко́рни impf (puskátʹ kórni), пусти́ть ко́рни pf (pustítʹ kórni) Spanish: radicar (es), echar raíces, arraigar (es) Vietnamese: mọc rễ Volapük: vulikön (vo)

to become established, to take hold

Catalan: arrelar (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 生根 (zh) (shēnggēn) Finnish: vakiintua (fi) French: s'enraciner (fr) German: Wurzeln schlagen Greek: ριζοβολώ (el) (rizovoló) Japanese: 根付く (ja) (ねづく, nezuku)

Korean: please add this translation if you can Maori: rarau Portuguese: please add this translation if you can Russian: укореня́ться (ru) impf (ukorenjátʹsja), укорени́ться (ru) pf (ukorenítʹsja) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: укорије́нити Roman: ukorijéniti (sh) Spanish: radicar (es)