English
radically
Radically comes from Latin rādīx ‘radish’, from Proto-Italic *wrādīks ‘root’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*wréh₂ds‘root’reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*wrādīks‘root’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CErādīx‘radish’
- English1500–presentradix‘root’
- Englishearliest quotation 1788radically
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*wréh₂ds‘root’reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*wrādīks‘root’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CErādīx‘radish’
- English1500–presentradix‘root’
- Englishearliest quotation 1788radically
Earliest quotation: 1788, Jonathan Edwards: “This [Algonquian] language [family] is spoken by all the…”
A compound of radical + -ly
Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds ‘root’
Proto-Italic *wrādīks ‘root’
Latin rādīx ‘root’
Latin rādīcālis ‘of or pertaining to the root, having roots,…’
Middle English radical
English radical
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds ‘root’
root, rote, wort, rance, ramus, 27 more
through Latin rādīx ‘radish’
Today it means
adv In a radical manner; fundamentally; very.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds / radically