Translation
root (of a plant, a word or a problem)
Word origin
From Latin radix, a root, which also gave English radish, radical and eradicate, the last of them meaning literally to tear out by the roots.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- radix
- English cognates
- radish, radical, eradicate
Examples
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The roots of the tree are deep.
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Every Esperanto word has a root.
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The root of the plant drinks water from the soil.
is the word the whole language is built on. Strip the ending off any Esperanto word and what remains is its : bel-, kur-, -. That is why the promise of this course is 2,000 roots rather than 2,000 words, because each root carries a noun, an adjective, an adverb and a verb before you have added a single affix. The mechanics are in the word endings article. Botanically and metaphorically the word behaves as English does: the root of a tree, and the root of a problem.
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