By: Graham

Graham
Thu, 23 Oct 2025 15:54:24 +0000

In reply to Barry Williams.

I’m glad you were taught Latin, but the Latin for root is radix. Deracinate is from Old French desraciner, from late Latin radicina, a little root, which is not found in any of the standard authors but was used by Pelagonius the Veterinarian, who wrote between AD 350 and 400. The word we have directly from Latin is eradicate.