raiz
See also: raíz
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raiz f
- root
- 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, To codex, cantiga 411 (facsimile):
- yſaya […] diſſe que aruor ſayria ben da rayz de ieſſe.
- Isaiah […] said that a tree would spring from the root of Jesse.
- yſaya […] diſſe que aruor ſayria ben da rayz de ieſſe.
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Etymology edit
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese raiz, from Latin rādīcem, from Proto-Italic *wrādīks, from Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds (“root”). Compare Galician raíz.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: ra‧iz
Noun edit
raiz f (plural raízes)
- (botany) root (part of a plant)
- (dentistry) root (part of a tooth)
- root (part of a hair)
- (figurative) root (primary source)
- (arithmetic) root (a number which, when raised to a specified power, yields the specified number)
- (graph theory) root (the single node of a tree that has no parent)
- Antonym: folha
- (linguistics) root (primary lexical unit of a word)
- Synonym: radical
- (linguistics) root (word from which another word or words are derived)
- Antonym: descendente
- (computing) root (highest directory of a directory structure)
- (figurative, usually in the plural) the place where one grew up
- Synonym: (Rio Grande do Sul) pago
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- (root of a plant): planta
- (root of a tooth): dente
- (root of a hair): cabelo, fio, pelo
- (root node): nó, vértice
- (highest directory of a structure): diretório, pasta
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- (root of a plant): raiz aérea, raiz axial, raiz fasciculada, raiz pivotante, raiz primária, rizoma, tuberosa
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raiz m or f (plural raízes)