different between radicative vs radicate

English

Etymology

From radicate (“cause to take root”) +? -ive.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?a?d?k??t?v/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?æ?d?k??t?v/

Adjective

radicative (comparative more radicative, superlative most radicative)

1. (obsolete, rare) causing to take root, establishing
2. (obsolete, rare) extending to the root, radical

References

“radicative, adj.”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000

Anagrams

• divaricate, vicariated

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