different between radicate vs radicated

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

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??ad?ke?t?d/

Verb

radicated

1. simple past tense and past participle of radicate

Adjective

radicated (not comparable)

1. (now rare) Rooted; firmly established.
   • 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica:

     Nor have we let fall our Pen upon discouragement of Contradiction, Unbelief and Difficulty of disswasion from radicated beliefs [...].

References

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