raíz

From Latin rādīcem, singular accusative of rādix.

• IPA^(key): /raˈiθ/, [raˈiθ]

raíz f (plural raíces)

1. root (part of a plant)

• reíz

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

• IPA^(key): /raˈiθ/, (western) /raˈis/

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

• ben raíz (“real state”)
• enraizar (“to root”)

• “raíz” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “reyz” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “raíz” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “raíz” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “raíz” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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

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

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• (Spain) Rhymes: -iθ
• (Latin America) Rhymes: -is
• Syllabification: ra‧íz

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

• “raíz”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014