The word roots refers to the plural of the term root, which depending on the context in which it is used will have different meanings. The root word is derived from the Latin "radix" which means "origin and beginning". If this word is used in the field of botany, it will be defined as the plant organ that is found under the earth and that allows the fixation of the plant to the ground in addition to facilitating the absorption of water and nutrients from the soil.
The roots are the first germinal parts of the seed and the reason why it grows in the opposite direction to the stem is because it has positive geotropism (the root grows to the center of the earth) and negative phototropism (root growth in the opposite direction to that of the light source). The roots are necessary to keep the plant alive; They are composed of the following parts: caliptra, epidermis, cortex, endodermis, and vascular cylinder.
On the other hand, it is important to mention that there are plants that have their roots in an aerial way, absorbing humidity from the environment or the sap of other plants. The roots can be of diverse forms: typical, when it has present all its already related parts, in the form of a spindle like the carrot; conical like beet, napiform if it has a turnip shape, etc.
In Analogy to plants, there is a very popular expression among people and it is the one that says “so and so took root in that place”, this expression indicates that a person has decided to establish their domicile indefinitely in a specific place.
In other situations when you want to know the origin of something, the root term is mentioned. For example, "you want to know the root of the environmental problem."
In the mathematical context roots are also mentioned, when referring to the square root of a number. Which means the number of times that a smaller number is multiplied by itself, to achieve the value whose root you want to find out.
In the field of grammar, the root term is also used, thus naming the primitive word from which other words are derived.
