different between radix vs radicle

English

Etymology

From Latin r?d?x (“a root”). Doublet of radish.

Pronunciation

• enPR: r?d?ks, IPA^(key): /?e?.d?ks/

Noun

radix (plural radixes or radices)

1. (biology) A root.
2. (linguistics) A primitive word, from which other words may be derived.
3. (mathematics) The number of distinct symbols used to represent numbers in a particular base, as ten for decimal.

Synonyms

• (linguistics): primitive (word), radical word

Derived terms

• (computing): radix-32 (rare), radix-64

Translations

Further reading

• radix on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• radix in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• radix in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *wr?d?ks, from Proto-Indo-European *wréh?ds. Cognate with Ancient Greek ????? (rhádix, “branch, twig”), Gothic ???????????????????????? (waurts), Old Irish fren (“root”) and Old English wyrt (“herb, plant”) (English wort).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ra?.di?ks/, [?rä?d?i?ks?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ra.diks/, [?r??d?iks]

Noun

r?d?x f (genitive r?d?cis); third declension

1. A root (of a plant).
2. A radish.
3. The lower part of an object; root.
4. (figuratively) A foundation, basis, ground, origin, source, root.

Declension

Note that the genitive plural r?d?cum has the alternative form r?dicium.Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Mozarabic:

  Arabic: ????????? (radi?i)

  Hebrew: ??????????? (radi?i)

• Navarro-Aragonese: [Term?]
  • Aragonese: radiz
• Old Leonese: [Term?]
  • Asturian: raíz
• Old Occitan: [Term?]
  • Occitan: raiç
  • ? Catalan: raïu (hypercorrection)
    • Catalan: raïl
      • ? Catalan: rel (contraction)
        • ? Catalan: arrel
• Old Portuguese: rayz, raiz
  • Galician: raíz
  • Portuguese: raiz
    • Guinea-Bissau Creole: rais
    • Kabuverdianu: raìs
    • Papiamentu: rais
• Old Spanish: [Term?]
  • Spanish: raíz
• Sardinian: radiche, radighe
• Venetian: raìs
• ? Latin: r?d?ce (ablative singular)
  • Dalmatian: radaica, radaika
  • Italian: radice
    • ? Middle French: radice
      • French: radis
        • ? Wolof: radi
      • ? Dutch: radijs
        • Afrikaans: radijs
        • ? German: Radies
          • ? German: Radieschen (diminutive)
    • ? Russian: ????? (redis)
  • Ligurian: reixa
  • Sicilian: ràdica, ràdiga, ràrica
  • Venetian: raixa
  • ? Danish: radise
    • ? Faroese: radisa
  • ? Icelandic: radísa
  • ? Swedish: rädisa
• ? Late Latin: rad?c?na (diminutive)
  • Eastern Romance:
    • Aromanian: arãdãtsinã, rãdãtsinã, arãsgãnã, zãrãtsinã, rãdzãtinã
    • Romanian: r?d?cin?
  • Old French: [Term?]
    • French: racine
      • Haitian Creole: rasin
    • Norman: raichinne, réchinne
    • Walloon: raecene
  • Sardinian: radichina, radighina, arradighina
• ? Albanian: radhiqe
• ? English: radix
• ? German: Radix
• ? West Germanic: *r?tik (see there for further descendants)

Unsorted:

• Occitan: rasic, rasiga, arradit
• Romansch: ragisch, risch, rieisch

References

• radix in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• radix in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• radix in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• radix in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, ?ISBN, page 512

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin radicula.

Pronunciation

• enPR: r?d??k-?l, IPA^(key): /??æd?k?l/
• Homophone: radical

Noun

radicle (plural radicles)

1. (botany) The rudimentary shoot of a plant which supports the cotyledons in the seed, and from which the root is developed downward; the root of the embryo.
2. (botany) A rootlet.
3. (chemistry) Archaic form of radical.

Related terms

• radix, radical, radiculous

References

• radicle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Cardiel, decrial, radicel