radix

== English == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin rādīx (“a root”). Doublet of radish. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈɹeɪ.dɪks/ Rhymes: -eɪdɪks === Noun === radix (plural radixes or radices) (biology) A root. (linguistics) The primitive root word or morpheme from which later versions derive; the etymon (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 ==== ==== Translations ==== === Further reading === radix on Wikipedia.Wikipedia “radix”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “radix”, in The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. == Latin == === Etymology === Inherited from Proto-Italic *wrādīks, from Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈraː.diːks] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈraː.diks] === Noun === rādīx f (genitive rādīcis); third declension root (of a plant) radish lower part of an object; root (figuratively) foundation, basis, ground, origin, source, root stock, family, race ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. The genitive plural rādīcum has the alternative form rādicium. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === 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, 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[1], London: Macmillan and Co. == Romanian == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin radix. === Noun === radix n (plural radixuri) a root (of a plant) ==== Declension ==== === References === radix in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN