radicitus

Latin

Etymology

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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