What does radice in Italian mean?

What is the meaning of the word radice in Italian? The article explains the full meaning, pronunciation along with bilingual examples and instructions on how to use radice in Italian.

The word radice in Italian means root, root, origin, cause, root, square root, root, calculate the square root, cube root, square root, stilt roots. To learn more, please see the details below.

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Meaning of the word radice

root

sostantivo femminile (piante, capelli, denti: parte da cui si sviluppa un organismo)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)
La radici dei suoi capelli è molto debole e per questo gliene stanno cadendo molti.
The roots of his hair are very weak and that is why so much of it is falling out.

root, origin, cause

sostantivo femminile (figurato (origine, causa) (figurative)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)
La radice di tutti i mali sta nell'intromissione di mia suocera nell'educazione dei nostri figli.
The cause (or: root) of all our problems is my mother-in-law's interference with our children's education.

root, square root

sostantivo femminile (matematica (numero che, elevato a potenza, restituisce un numero dato) (math)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)
Una delle consegne nel compito di matematica era di calcolare la radice quadrata di centoventicinque.
One of the questions in the maths test was to work out the square root of one hundred and twenty five.

root

sostantivo femminile (linguaggio: parte di una parola comune ad altre) (linguistics)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)
Tutte queste parole hanno la stessa radice.
All these words have the same root.

calculate the square root

cube root

square root

sostantivo femminile (matematica) (mathematics)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)

stilt roots

sostantivo femminile (tipo di radice) (plants)

(plural noun: Noun always used in plural form--for example, "jeans," "scissors.")
Questo è un esempio di pianta con radici a trampolo.

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