rootage

1. Fixedness by or as if by roots (synset 114030169)
   "strengthened by rootage in the firm soil of faith"
   is a type of: fixedness, immobility, stationariness - remaining in place
2. A developed system of roots (synset 113145762)
   is a type of: scheme, system - a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole
   has: root - (botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground
   same as: root system
3. The place where something begins, where it springs into being (synset 108524579)
   "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"
   is a type of: point - the precise location of something; a spatially limited location
   subtypes:

   • derivation - the source or origin from which something derives (i.e. comes or issues)
   • spring - a point at which water issues forth
   • fountainhead, head, headspring - the source of water from which a stream arises
   • headwater - the source of a river
   • wellhead, wellspring - the source of water for a well
   • jumping-off place, point of departure - a place from which an enterprise or expedition is launched
   • birthplace, cradle, place of origin, provenance, provenience - where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence
   • home - place where something began and flourished
   • point source - a concentrated source (especially of radiation or pollution) that is spatially constricted
   • trail head, trailhead - the beginning of a trail
   same as: beginning, origin, root, source

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