raíz

From Latin rādīcem, singular accusative of rādix.

• IPA^(key): /raˈiθ/ [raˈiθ]
• Rhymes: -iθ
• Syllabification: ra‧íz

raíz f (plural raíces)

1. root (part of a plant)

• Xosé Lluis García Arias (2002–2004), “raíz”, in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana [General Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Spanish), Editorial Prensa Asturiana, →ISBN
• “raíz”, in Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana [Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Asturian), 1ª edición, Academia de la Llingua Asturiana, 2000, →ISBN

• reíz
• raiz (reintegrationist)

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

• Hyphenation: ra‧íz

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

• “raíz”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• “raíz”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2025
• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “raíz”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “reyz”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• 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

raíz f

1. misspelling of raiz

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

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

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• Rhymes: -iθ (Spain)
• Rhymes: -is (Latin America, Philippines)
• 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 [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024