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radicate

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English

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Etymology

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

Verb

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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.
  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, []

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Adjective

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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.

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Italian

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Etymology 1

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Verb

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radicate

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

Etymology 2

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Participle

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radicate f pl

  1. feminine plural of radicato

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Latin

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Adjective

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rādīcāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of rādīcātus

Spanish

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Verb

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radicate

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