root (noun)

(botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground

beginning, origin, root, rootage, source (noun)

the place where something begins, where it springs into being

"the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"; "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"; "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River"; "communism's Russian root"

root, root word, base, stem, theme, radical (noun)

(linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed

"thematic vowels are part of the stem"

root (noun)

a number that, when multiplied by itself some number of times, equals a given number

solution, root (noun)

the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation

ancestor, ascendant, ascendent, antecedent, root (noun)

someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)

etymon, root (noun)

a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes

root, tooth root (verb)

the part of a tooth that is embedded in the jaw and serves as support

root (verb)

take root and begin to grow

"this plant roots quickly"

root (verb)

come into existence, originate

"The problem roots in her depression"

root (verb)

plant by the roots

rout, root, rootle (verb)

dig with the snout

"the pig was rooting for truffles"

settle, root, take root, steady down, settle down (verb)

become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style

"He finally settled down"

root (verb)

cause to take roots

Root

The root word is the primary lexical unit of a word, and of a word family, which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents. Content words in nearly all languages contain, and may consist only of root morphemes. However, sometimes the term "root" is also used to describe the word minus its inflectional endings, but with its lexical endings in place. For example, chatters has the inflectional root or lemma chatter, but the lexical root chat. Inflectional roots are often called stems, and a root in the stricter sense may be thought of as a monomorphemic stem. The traditional definition allows roots to be either free morphemes or bound morphemes. Root morphemes are essential for affixation and compounds. However, in polysynthetic languages with very high levels of inflectional morphology, the term "root" is generally synonymous with "free morpheme". Many such languages have a very restricted number of morphemes that can stand alone as a word: Yup'ik, for instance, has no more than two thousand. The root of a word is a unit of meaning and, as such, it is an abstraction, though it can usually be represented in writing as a word would be. For example, it can be said that the root of the English verb form running is run, or the root of the Spanish superlative adjective amplísimo is ampl-, since those words are clearly derived from the root forms by simple suffixes that do not alter the roots in any way. In particular, English has very little inflection, and hence a tendency to have words that are identical to their roots. But more complicated inflection, as well as other processes, can obscure the root; for example, the root of mice is mouse, and the root of interrupt is, arguably, rupt, which is not a word in English and only appears in derivational forms. The root rupt is written as if it were a word, but it's not.

ROOT

ROOT is an object-oriented program and library developed by CERN. It was originally designed for particle physics data analysis and contains several features specific to the field, but it is also used in other applications such as astronomy and data mining. The latest minor release is 6.26, as of 2022-03-08.