1. (

• rootage

) fixedness by or as if by roots; "strengthened by rootage in the firm soil of faith" ;

2. (

• rootage ,
• root_system

) a developed system of roots ;

3. (

• beginning ,
• origin ,
• root ,
• rootage ,
• source

) 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" ;