1 fixedness by or as if by roots; "strengthened
by rootage in the firm soil of faith"
2 a developed system of roots [syn:
root
system]
3 the place where something begins, where it
springs into being; "the Italian beginning of the Renaissance";
"Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"; "Pittsburgh is the
source of the Ohio River"; "communism's Russian root" [syn:
beginning,
origin,
root,
source]