different between deracinate vs radicate

English

Etymology

Calque of French déraciner, from racine (“root”), from Latin radix, radicis (“root”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d???æs?ne?t/, /d???æs?ne?t/

Verb

deracinate (third-person singular simple present deracinates, present participle deracinating, simple past and past participle deracinated)

1. To pull up by the roots; to uproot; to extirpate.
   • 1602, Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida

     Divert and crack, rend and deracinate,

     The unity and married calm of states

     Quite from their fixture!

   • 1910, G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World, chapter 1.7

     The State has no tool delicate enough to deracinate the rooted habits and tangled affections of the family; the two sexes, whether happy or unhappy, are glued together too tightly for us to get the blade of a legal penknife in between them.

2. To force (people) from their homeland to a new or foreign location.
3. (transitive, intransitive) To liberate or be liberated from a culture or its norms.
   • 1986 Robert McCrum, William Cran, & Robert MacNeil, The Story of English, Viking Penguin Inc., p328:

     Observing the highest echelons of Indian society, she notes the way in which some Indians become completely — almost absurdly — anglicized or deracinated.

Translations

Anagrams

• ecardinate

English

Etymology

Latin radicatus, past participle of radicari (“to take root”), from radix (“root”).

Verb

radicate (third-person singular simple present radicates, present participle radicating, simple past and past participle radicated)

1. (transitive, rare) To cause to take root; to plant or establish firmly.
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To take root; to become established.
3. (transitive, arithmetic, rare) To extract the root of a number.
   • 1972, Patrick Meredith, Dyslexia and the individual, page 36

     Numbers, arithmetically, can be added, subtracted, multiplied and divided, exponentiated and radicated, […]

Synonyms

• (to plant or establish firmly): root, settle, ingrain

Antonyms

• eradicate
• uproot
• deracinate

Related terms

• radication
• radicable
• radicative

Translations

References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “radicate”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN

Adjective

radicate

1. Rooted; deep-seated; firmly established.
2. (botany) Having a root; growing from a root; (of a fungus) having rootlike outgrowths at the base of the stipe.
3. (zoology) Fixed at the bottom as if rooted.

References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “radicate”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN

Anagrams

• acardite, air cadet

Italian

Verb

radicate

1. second-person plural present indicative of radicare
2. second-person plural imperative of radicare
3. feminine plural of radicato

Anagrams

• cardiate

Latin

Adjective

r?d?c?te

1. vocative masculine singular of r?d?c?tus