radix

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin rādīx (“a root”). Doublet of radish.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹeɪ.dɪks/

• Audio (Southern England)

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Noun

radix (plural radixes or radices)

1. (biology) A root.
2. (linguistics) A primitive word, from which other words may be derived.
3. (mathematics) The number of distinct symbols used to represent numbers in a particular base, as ten for decimal.

Synonyms

• (linguistics): primitive (word), radical word

Derived terms

• (computing): radix-32 (rare), radix-64

Translations

Further reading

• radix on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “radix”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “radix”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *wrādīks, from Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈraː.diːks/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈra.diks/,

Noun

rādīx f (genitive rādīcis); third declension

1. a root (of a plant)
2. a radish
3. the lower part of an object; root
4. (figuratively) a foundation, basis, ground, origin, source, root

Declension

Note that the genitive plural rādīcum has the alternative form rādicium. Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: radice (see there for further descendants)
• Neapolitan: radeca, ràdeca
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Ligurian: réixe, réixa, ràixa, raìxa
    • Old Lombard: rayxe
      • Lombard: raìss, ariss
    • Piedmontese: rèis, ràis, rèux
    • Romagnol: radìșa
  • Friulian: radris
  • Romansch: ragisch, risch, rieisch
  • Venetian: raìs, raixa
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: rés, réce, rage
  • Old French: raïz
    • ⇒ French: raifort (“horseradish”) (+fort 'strong')
• Occitano-Romance:
  • Old Catalan: raïu, rahiu
    • ⇒ Catalan: raïl (hypercorrection) ⇒ rel (monophthongization) ⇒ arrel (epenthesis)
  • Gascon: arraditz, raditz, arraïtz
  • Old Occitan: raitz
    • Occitan: raiç
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: radiz
  • Asturian: raíz
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: raiz, rayz
    • Galician: raíz
    • Portuguese: raiz (see there for further descendants)
  • Spanish: raíz; ⇒ raigón
• Ancient borrowings:
  • → Proto-Albanian:
    • Albanian: radhiqe
  • → Proto-West Germanic: *rādik (see there for further descendants)
• Later borrowings:
  • → English: radix
  • → German: Radix
  • → Welsh: rhadicl
    • → Welsh: rhuddygl

References

• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 512
• Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “radix”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 524
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “radix”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 10: R, page 26

Further reading

• “radix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “radix”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• radix in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• radix in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to take root: radices agere (De Off. 2. 12. 73)
    
  • at the foot of the mountain: sub radicibus montis, in infimo monte, sub monte
    
  • to occupy the foot of a hill: considere sub monte (sub montis radicibus)
    

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin radix.

Noun

radix n (plural radixuri)

1. a root (of a plant)

Declension

References

• radix in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN