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ridica.

to lift, elevate, raise, hoist, suspend

6 characters3 syllables approx.Română language

Meaning & usage

verb/ri.diˈka/
  1. to lift, elevate, raise, hoist, suspend

    transitive
  2. to increase

    transitive
  3. to uplift

    transitive
  4. to get up, stand up, arise

    reflexive
  5. to tower

    figuratively · intransitive · literary
  6. to amount, add up to

    formal · reflexive
  7. to recover from a disease

    reflexive
  8. to heal, cure

    obsolete · transitive
Where this word comes from

Probably from Latin ērādīcāre (“root out, eradicate”) (and thus a doublet of the borrowing eradica). Another possibility is Late Latin or Vulgar Latin ridicāre (“tie a vine, e.g. in a vineyard”) (attested from a late gloss), from ridica (“stake; prop; vine-prop”); cf. also Spanish rodrigón. The semantic development in this case would pertain to how vines were set up in Romanian vineyards traditionally, using a trunk for the vines and stakes to support them; in the winter they would be lowered covered with a layer of earth to protect from the cold, but in spring would be raised again on the stakes or props. Less likely etymologies proposed include a Vulgar Latin *rigidicāre, from rigidus, or *adrecticāre. Compare Megleno-Romanian rădic, ardic, ardicari.

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