rootage

(n) fixedness by or as if by roots
- strengthened by rootage in the firm soil of faith
(n) a developed system of roots root system,
(n) 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
origin, source, root, beginning,

root system origin source root beginning