raíz

Etymology

From Latin rādīcem, singular accusative of rādix.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /raˈiθ/, [raˈiθ]

Noun

raíz f (plural raíces)

1. root (part of a plant)

Alternative forms

• reíz

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese raiz (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin rādix, rādīcem. Cognate with Portuguese raiz and Spanish raíz.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ra‧íz

Noun

raíz f (plural raíces)

1. root; root vegetable
   • c. 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Publicacións de Archivum, page 103:

     mãtynãsse das froytas que achauã porlos mõtes et das rreyzes das eruas que podiam comer

     they feed on the fruits they found in the hills and on the plant roots they could eat

2. stump

   A raíz do toxo verde é moi mala de arrincar; os amoriños primeiros son moi malos de olvidar (folk song)

   Green gorse stump is so hard to unroot; first love is so hard to forget

3. root (of a tooth, a nail, etc)
4. (linguistics) root
5. (computing) root
6. (figurative) origin

   Synonym: orixe

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “raíz”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “reyz”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “raíz”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “raíz”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “raíz”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Noun

raíz f

1. Misspelling of raiz.

Etymology

Inherited from Latin rādīcem, from Proto-Italic *wrādīks, from Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds. Cognate with English radish.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /raˈiθ/ [raˈiθ]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /raˈis/ [raˈis]

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• Rhymes: -iθ
• Rhymes: -is
• Syllabification: ra‧íz

Noun

raíz f (plural raíces)

1. root; root vegetable
2. root (of a tooth, a nail, etc)
3. (linguistics) root
4. (computing) root
5. (figurative) origin

   Synonym: origen

Further reading

• “raíz”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10