ῥίζα

• βρίζα (bríza) (Aeolic)
• ῥίζη (rhízē) (Ionic)

From Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds (“root”). Confer ῥάδιξ (rhádix). Cognate with Latin radix (“root”), Latin ramus (“branch”), Old Norse rót (“root”) (English root), Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌿𐍂𐍄𐍃 (waurts), Old English wyrt (“herb, plant”) (English wort), Old Irish fren (“root”), and possibly Tocharian B witsako (“root”).

ῥῐ́ζᾰ • (rhíza) f (genitive ῥῐ́ζης); first declension

1. root (of a plant)
2. source
3. base, foundation
4. stock, family, race

• ῥιζικός (rhizikós)

• Greek: ρίζα (ríza)
• Tsakonian: σχίντα

• ῥίζα in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ῥίζα in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ῥίζα in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ῥίζα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• ῥίζα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• ῥίζα in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G4491 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • base idem, page 64.
  • cause idem, page 118.
  • element idem, page 265.
  • family idem, page 305.
  • foot idem, page 333.
  • foundation idem, page 341.
  • line idem, page 492.
  • origin idem, page 579.
  • race idem, page 667.
  • root idem, page 721.
  • seed idem, page 749.
  • source idem, page 797.
  • spring idem, page 805.
  • starting point idem, page 812.
  • stem idem, page 815.
  • stock idem, page 818.