root – English noun declension

English noun forms of root

Noun: root
Singularroot
Pluralroots

Sample Sentences

  • This tree's roots can go as deep as twenty metres underground.
  • A Greek historian Phylarchus describes a white root indigenous to India that caused eunuchism when a person bathed in water in which the root was steeped. [1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 123:]
  • A root caught Ulot's left foot and he almost fell. [1981, Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 6:]
  • [...] two fields which should have been sown with roots in the early summer were not sown because the ploughing had not been completed early enough. [1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:]
  • Root damage is a common problem of overbrushing.
  • The root is the only part of the hair that is alive.
  • He dyed his hair black last month, so the grey roots can be seen.
  • The love of money is the root of all evil.
  • They were the roots out of which sprang two distinct people. [, Book 1]
  • Phallicism was, therefore, at the root of all religion, and was definitely the opponent of evil and darkness. [1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 160:]
  • The root diameter is the minor diameter of an external thread and the major diameter of an internal one.
  • The cube root of 27 is 3.
  • Multiply by root 2.
  • 1899, Dante Gabriel Rossetti (transl.), The New Life (La Vita Nuova) of Dante Alighieri, Siddall edition, page 122.
  • The number three is the root of the number nine; […] being multiplied merely by itself, it produceth nine, as we manifestly perceive that three times three are nine.
  • In ſo moche that if any verbe be of the thyꝛde coniugation / I ſet out all his rotes and tenſes[…] [1530 July 18, Iohan Palſgrave, “The Introduction”, in Leſclarciſſement de la langue francoyſe […] , London: Richard Pynſon, Iohan Haukyns, →OCLC, page 32; reprinted as Lesclarcissement de la langue françoyse, Genève: Slatkine Reprints, 1972:]
  • A considerable number of derived nominals, especially thematic nouns, also exhibited o-grade roots. [2006, Donald Ringe, From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English; 1), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 12:]
  • deep to the roots of hell [1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:]
  • the roots of the mountains [1812, Robert Southey, Omniana:]
  • I have to log in as root before I do that.
  • I installed the files in the root directory.

Etymology

1. PIE word
2. *wréh₂ds
3. From Middle English rote, root, roote (“the underground part of a plant”), from late Old English rōt, from Old Norse rót (“root”), from Proto-Germanic *wrōts (“root”), from Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds (“root”); Doublet of wort, radish, and radix.
4. Cognate with Scots ruit, rute (“root”), Danish rod (“root”), Faroese and Icelandic rót (“root”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish rot (“root”). See: Middle English Nouns 'rote', Old Norse Nouns 'rót', Danish Nouns 'rod'.

Verbs referencing "root"

Danish Nouns rod, Middle English Nouns rote, Russian Nouns род, Irish Nouns rúta, Ancient Greek Nouns ῥίζα, Swedish Nouns ört, Faroese Nouns urt, Polish Nouns ród, Ancient Greek Nouns ῥάδιξ.