radicate

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

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.
   • 1664, J[ohn] E[velyn], Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. , London: Jo Martyn, and Ja Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, , →OCLC:

     And for Ever - greens , especially such as are tender , prune them not after Planting , till they do radicate

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, […]

• (to plant or establish firmly): root, settle, ingrain

• eradicate
• uproot
• deracinate

• radication
• radicable
• radicative

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “radicate”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

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.

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “radicate”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

• acardite, air cadet

radicate

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

radicate f pl

1. feminine plural of radicato

• cardiate

rādīcāte

1. vocative masculine singular of rādīcātus

radicate

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