Etymograph

English

radicate

Radicate comes from Latin radicatus ‘rooted’, from radicari ‘to take root’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*wréh₂ds‘root’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*wrādīks‘root’reconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEradix‘root’
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEradicari‘to take root’next step skipped: Latin rādīcō
  5. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEradicatus‘rooted’past participle of radicari
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1664radicate

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*wréh₂ds‘root’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*wrādīks‘root’reconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEradix‘root’
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEradicari‘to take root’next step skipped: Latin rādīcō
  5. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEradicatus‘rooted’past participle of radicari
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1664radicate

Earliest quotation: 1664, John Evelyn, Sylva: “And for Ever - greens , especially such as…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds ‘root’

root, wort, rote, rance, ramus, 28 more

through Latin radix ‘root’

race, eradication, radish, radix, 14 more

Today it means

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

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds / radicate

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