root word
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| Noun | 1. | root word - (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; "thematic vowels are part of the stem" linguistics - the scientific study of language descriptor, form, signifier, word form - the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something; "the inflected forms of a word can be represented by a stem and a list of inflections to be attached" |
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n → radice fCollins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995