radix

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹeɪ.dɪks/

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• Rhymes: -eɪdɪks

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.

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

• radix on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “radix”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “radix”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈraː.diːks]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈraː.d̪iks]

rādīx f (genitive rādīcis); third declension

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

Note that the genitive plural rādīcum has the alternative form rādicium.

Third-declension noun.

• 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, volume 10: R, page 26

• “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^[1], 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)
    

Borrowed from Latin radix.

radix n (plural radixuri)

1. a root (of a plant)

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