ῥίζα

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

From Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds (“root”). Compare ῥάδιξ (rhádix). Cognate with Mycenaean Greek 𐀹𐀪𐀼 (wi-ri-za), 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

• Greek: ρίζα (ríza)
• Mariupol Greek: ри́за (ríza)
• Tsakonian: σχίντα (schínta)
• → English: rhizo- (learned)

• “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, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• 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.
• “ῥίζα”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011