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)

1. (transitive, rare) To cause to take root; to plant or establish firmly.
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To take root; to become established.
   • 1664, J[ohn] E[velyn], Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC:

     And for Ever - greens , especially such as are tender , prune them not after Planting , till they do radicate

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

References

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “radicate”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

Adjective

radicate

1. Rooted; deep-seated; firmly established.
2. (botany) Having a root; growing from a root; (of a fungus) having rootlike outgrowths at the base of the stipe.
3. (zoology) Fixed at the bottom as if rooted.

References

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “radicate”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

Anagrams

• acardite, air cadet

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

radicate

1. inflection of radicare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

radicate f pl

1. feminine plural of radicato

Anagrams

• cardiate

Latin

Adjective

rādīcāte

1. vocative masculine singular of rādīcātus

Spanish

Verb

radicate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of radicar combined with te