Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

radicate

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: rad-i-cate
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To cause to take root; to plant or establish firmly.

Transitive verb

verb

To take root; to become established.

Intransitive verb; Obsolete

verb

To extract the root of a number.

Transitive verb

adj

Rooted; deep-seated; firmly established.

adj

Having a root; growing from a root; (of a fungus) having rootlike outgrowths at the base of the stipe.

adj

Fixed at the bottom as if rooted.

Example Sentences

"And for Ever - greens , especially such as are tender , prune them not after Planting , till they do radicate"
"Numbers, arithmetically, can be added, subtracted, multiplied and divided, exponentiated and radicated, […]"

Etymology

From Latin radicatus, past participle of radicari (“to take root”), from radix (“root”).

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: radicatus

Usage

Inflected Forms

radicates (present, singular) radicating (participle, present) radicated (participle, past) radicated (past)

Derived Forms

irradicate coradicate multiradicate

Frequently Paired Words

radication radicable radicative

Synonyms

root settle ingrain

Antonyms

eradicate uproot deracinate

Questions

What does radicate mean?: To cause to take root; to plant or establish firmly.
Where does radicate come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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