Root

Noun

 * 1) The part of a plant, generally underground, that absorbs water and nutrients. Tomaat wortels.jpg
 * 2) The part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place.
 * 3) The part of a hair under the skin that holds the hair in place.
 * 4) The part of a hair near the skin that has not been dyed, permed, or otherwise treated.
 * 5) The primary source.
 * The love of money is the root of all evil.
 * 1)  Of a number or expression, a number which, when raised to a specified power, yields the specified number or expression.
 * The cube root of 27 is 3.
 * 1)  A square root (understood if no power is specified; in which case, “the root of” is often abbreviated to “root”).
 * Multiply by root 2.
 * 1)  A zero (of a function).
 * 2)  The single node of a tree that has no parent.
 * 3)  The primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents. Inflectional stems often derive from roots.
 * 4)  A word from which another word or words are derived.
 * 5)  In UNIX terminology, the first user account with complete access to the operating system and its configuration, found at the root of the directory structure.
 * 6)  The person who manages accounts on a UNIX system.


 * 1)  The highest directory of a directory structure which may contain both files and subdirectories.  In PC-based systems the number of entries in a root directory may be limited whereas the number entries in subdirectories is unlimited.
 * 2)  An act of sexual intercourse.
 * Fancy a root?

Synonyms

 * basis, origin, source
 * zero
 * etymon
 * superuser (See Wikipedia: Superuser), root account, root user

Derived terms

 * cube root
 * functional root
 * put down roots
 * root canal
 * root cause
 * rootkit
 * roots


 * roots music
 * rootsy
 * square root
 * strictly roots
 * take root
 * taproot
 * root gap

Verb

 * 1) To rummage, to search as if by digging in soil, to root out.
 * 2) 🇺🇸 To cheer to show support for a sports team, etc.
 * 3) * 1908, Jack Norworth, Take Me Out to the Ball Game
 * Let me root, root, root for the home team,
 * 1)  To have sexual intercourse.

Synonyms

 * dig out, root out, rummage
 * barrack, cheer on
 * screw, shag - See WikiSaurus:sexual intercourse

Derived terms

 * root about
 * rooted
 * root for


 * root out
 * root up

Noun

 * 1)  An act of sexual intercourse.
 * 2)  A sexual partner.

Synonyms

 * screw, shag ; see also WikiSaurus:sexual intercourse
 * screw

Thesaurus
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Etymology 1
From root:, from late  rot:, from  rót: ( rót:), from, from ; cognate with wort: and radix:.

Etymology 2
From wrōten, ‘to dig with the snout’, from  wrōtan, from, ‘to dig out, to root’, from , ‘to scrape, to scratch, to gnaw’; cognate with rodent. Cognate with Dutch wroeten:.

Noun

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: (  جذور)
 * Armenian:
 * Azeri:
 * Bosnian:
 * Bulgarian: (koren)
 * Catalan:
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: (gēn)
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German: ,
 * Greek: (ríza)
 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hebrew: (šóreš)
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:, , , , ڕه‌گ
 * Lak: ,
 * Latgalian:
 * Latin:


 * Latvian: sakne, saknes
 * Luhya:
 * Malay: akar
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan: ,
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: ragisch, risch, rieisch
 * Russian:, корни; коренья (korén’ja)
 * Scottish Gaelic: freumh
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: ,
 * Swedish:, rötter
 * Tagalog:
 * Tajik:
 * Telugu: (vaeru)
 * Tibetan:
 * Tonga:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: корінь (kórin’), корені (koréni)
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük: vul
 * West Frisian:
 * !Xóõ:


 * Afrikaans:
 * Arabic: (  جذور)
 * Armenian:
 * Bosnian:
 * Bulgarian: (koren)
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:, ,
 * Greek: (ríza)
 * Hebrew: (shoresh)
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Italian:


 * Japanese:
 * Korean: (ppuri)
 * Latin: ,
 * Latvian: sakne
 * Occitan:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: rădăcină de dinte, rădăcină dentară (dentală)
 * Russian:, корни
 * Scottish Gaelic: freumh
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman:
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:, tandrot
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: корінь (kórin’), корені (koréni)
 * Vietnamese: chân răng


 * Armenian:
 * Bosnian:
 * Croatian:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: Haarwurzel,
 * Hebrew: (shoresh)
 * Hungarian:
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish:


 * Romanian: rădăcină de păr
 * Russian:, корни
 * Scottish Gaelic: freumh
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: korienok
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese: chân tóc


 * Afrikaans:
 * Arabic: ( أصول)
 * Armenian:
 * Bosnian:
 * Bulgarian: (koren)
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 根源
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * Galician:
 * German: ,
 * Greek: (ríza)
 * Hebrew: (makor)
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, (もと, motó),  根源


 * Korean: (geunweon)
 * Latin: (genitive: radicis)
 * Latvian: sakne
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan:
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: (kóren’), корни (kórni)
 * Scottish Gaelic: freumh
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: మూలము (moolamu)
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: корінь (kórin’), корені (koréni)


 * Afrikaans:
 * Arabic: (  جذور)
 * Armenian:
 * Bosnian:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, machtswortel
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: (shoresh)
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:


 * Italian:
 * Latvian: sakne
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, корни
 * Scottish Gaelic: freumh
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: మూలము (moolamu)
 * Turkish:


 * Afrikaans:
 * Armenian:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: nulpunt,
 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian:


 * Polish: ,
 * Russian:, корни
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, rot


 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German: Wurzelknoten


 * Hungarian:
 * Polish:
 * Russian:, корни


 * Dutch: wortel
 * French: ,
 * Polish: rdzeń


 * Russian: корень
 * Scottish Gaelic: freumh


 * Arabic: ( أصول)
 * Armenian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 詞根, 词根
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, kantasana
 * French: ,
 * German: Stamm
 * Greek: (ríza)
 * Hebrew: (shoresh)


 * Hungarian: szótő
 * Irish:
 * Persian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, корни
 * Scottish Gaelic: freumh
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, ordrot
 * Turkish:


 * Finnish: pääkäyttäjä
 * Russian: рут


 * Swahili:


 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: pääkäyttäjä


 * French:


 * : корен (koren)
 * : raíz
 * : 근원 (geunweon)
 * : 근원 (geunweon)


 * : (genitive: radicis)
 * : raiç
 * : корінь (kórin’), корені (koréni)
 * : rễ
 * : rễ

Verb

 * Dutch:, , wroeten
 * Finnish: juurruttaa, möyriä


 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: rota, böka


 * Dutch:, aanvuren, supporteren


 * Hungarian: szurkol,


 * Dutch:, ,
 * Finnish: köyriä


 * French: ,
 * Italian:, ,

Noun

 * Dutch: neukpartij


 * Italian:

Anagrams

 * troo