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Syllable division and stress derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
rootage is a noun meaning "fixedness by or as if by roots". It carries 3 recorded senses.
fixedness by or as if by roots
“strengthened by rootage in the firm soil of faith”
a developed system of roots
the place where something begins, where it springs into being
“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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for rootage come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.