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root
in grammar:

1. a morpheme that underlies an inflectional or derivational paradigm, as dance, the root in danced, dancer, or ten-, the root of Latin tendere “to stretch.”

2. such a form reconstructed for a parent language, as *sed-, the hypothetical proto-Indo-European root meaning “sit.”

3. the simple element inferred as the basis from which a word is derived by phonetic change or by extension (such as composition or the addition of an affix or inflectional ending).

Sources: 1, 2.

Added: 9 June 2020 {8:43 PM}
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