radix
1 synonym for radix, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Noun — (linguistics) The original word or word-part that a later word comes from.
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Etymology
Its Proto-Indo-European root was *wréh₂ds, which gave Proto-Italic *wrādīks and then Latin rādīx, from which English radix is a learned borrowing meaning “a root”. It is a doublet of radish.
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