radicina

Forms

rādīcīna f (genitive rādīcīnae); first declension^[1]

Etymology

It is from Latin rādīx (“root”) + -īna.^[1][2] The TLL compares rāpīna² (“turnip field”) beside rāpa and farīna beside far, and names of meats such as agnīna and porcīna.^[2] Köbler gives Old French racine (“root”) as a later reflex.^[3]

Earliest recorded meaning

It is first found in Pelagonius' veterinary treatise, written about 360 AD,^[3] where it means the roots of plants, such as those that the plough turns up.^[2][4]

Semantic evolution

The word is rare and late, and means no more than rādīx.^[2][5] Pelagonius uses it several times in remedies, for the roots of the wild cucumber and of the chamaeleon plant.^[2][4] The Antidotarium Bruxellense has it for the bark of the hazel root and the roots of dwarf elder and willow.^[2]

Timeline

• c. 360 AD – Pelagonius uses it for plant roots in his veterinary remedies.^[2][3]

Meanings

Noun

1. (Late Latin) A root (of a plant).^[2][4][1]

Related words

• rādīx

References

1. ^ a b c Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e f g h Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
3. ^ a b c Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
4. ^ a b c Georges, Karl Ernst (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th ed., ed. Heinrich Georges, Hannover; Leipzig: Hahn
5. ^ Gaffiot, Félix (2016), Dictionnaire latin-français, new ed. by Gérard Gréco et al. (Gaffiot 2016), online ed.