racine — meaning in English
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English meaning
- radical adjective Favoring extreme, fundamental change, especially in politics or society.
- radix noun The primitive root word or morpheme from which later versions derive; the etymon
- root noun The underground part of a plant that anchors it and draws in water and nutrients.
- stem noun The main stalk of a plant that supports leaves, flowers, or fruit.
Senses
racine is used for these senses in English:
- radical (arithmetic) A root (of a number or quantity).
- radix (linguistics) A primitive word, from which other words may be derived.
- root (figurative) The primary source; origin.
- root (linguistic morphology) The primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents. Inflectional stems often derive from roots.
- root (philology) A word from which another word or words are derived.
- stem A slender supporting member of an individual part of a plant such as a flower or a leaf; also, by analogy, the shaft of a feather.
radical — full definition
- adjective Favoring extreme, fundamental change, especially in politics or society.
- adjective Thorough and far-reaching; affecting the most basic or essential part of something.
- noun A person who holds extreme or fundamentally reforming political views.
- noun In chemistry, a group of atoms that behaves as a single unit in reactions (often short for "free radical").
radix — full definition
- noun The primitive root word or morpheme from which later versions derive; the etymon
- noun The number of distinct symbols used to represent numbers in a particular base, as ten for decimal.