Verb
take root (third-person singular simple present takes root, present participle taking root, simple past took root, past participle taken root)
- (intransitive, literally) To grow roots into soil.
Those tulip bulbs have taken root.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To become established, to take hold.
The new regulations have yet to take root.
1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:You have of late stood out against your brother, and he hath ta'en you newly into his grace; where it is impossible you should take true root but by the fair weather that you make yourself: it is needful that you frame the season for your own harvest.
Translations
to grow roots into soil
- Catalan: arrelar (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 生根 (zh) (shēnggēn)
- Finnish: juurtua (fi)
- French: prendre racine (fr), raciner (fr)
- Galician: enraizar (gl)
- German: einwurzeln (de)
- Greek: ριζοβολώ (el) (rizovoló), ριζώνω (el) (rizóno)
- Hungarian: gyökeret ver/ereszt/hajt, megered (hu), meggyökerezik (hu), meggyökeresedik (hu)
- Japanese: 根付く (ja) (ねづく, nezuku)
- Korean: please add this translation if you can
- Latin: rādīcō
- Polish: zakorzeniać się impf, zakorzenić się
- Portuguese: enraizar (pt), deitar raízes, fixar raízes
- Romanian: înrădăcina (ro)
- Russian: принима́ться (ru) impf (prinimátʹsja), приня́ться (ru) pf (prinjátʹsja), пуска́ть ко́рни impf (puskátʹ kórni), пусти́ть ко́рни pf (pustítʹ kórni)
- Spanish: radicar (es), echar raíces (es), arraigar (es)
- Swedish: slå rot
- Vietnamese: mọc rễ
- Volapük: vulikön (vo)
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to become established, to take hold