Main entry: root, rootage, source, beginning, origin
Definition: the place where something begins, where it springs into being
Usage: 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
Main entry: root system, rootage
Definition: a developed system of roots
Main entry: rootage
Definition: fixedness by or as if by roots
Usage: strengthened by rootage in the firm soil of faith