English
root extraction
From root + extraction.
Formed from root + extraction
Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds ‘root’
Proto-Germanic *wrōts ‘root’
Old Norse rót ‘root’
Old English rōt ‘root’
Middle English rote ‘underground part of a plant’
English root
Latin trahō ‘to drag’
Latin extrahō ‘to drag, pull or draw forth or out’
Medieval Latin extractio ‘extraction, rescue’
Old French estraction
English extraction
Today it means
noun The process or result of computing the nth root of a real or complex number.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “root extraction”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
Etymograph / root extraction