radicitus

radicitus

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds
Proto-Italic *wrādīks
Latin rādīx
Latin -tus
Latin rādīcitus

    From rādīx + -tus.

    Adverb

    rādīcitus (not comparable)

    1. by the roots
      Hanc excutere opīniōnem mihimet voluī rādīcitus.
      I wished, for my own sake, to pluck up this opinion by the roots.
    2. utterly, completely, radically

    References

    • “radicitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “radicitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • “radicitus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
      • to destroy superstition root and branch: superstitionem radicitus or penitus evellere
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