rootage
n 1: fixedness by or as if by roots; "strengthened by rootage in
the firm soil of faith"
2: a developed system of roots [syn: {rootage}, {root system}]
3: 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" [syn:
{beginning}, {origin}, {root}, {rootage}, {source}]