father vs root

father and root both are nouns.

father and root both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
father	Yes	No	Yes	No
root	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, root is a hypernym of father; that is, root is a word with a broader meaning than father:

father: the founder of a family
root: someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)

Other hypernyms of father include ancestor, antecedent, ascendant, ascendent.

father (noun)	root (noun)
a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)	the embedded part of a bodily structure such as a tooth, nail, or hair
the founder of a family	(linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed
a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization	a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes
a person who founds or establishes some institution	the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation
the head of an organized crime family	the place where something begins, where it springs into being
	someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
	(botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground
	a number that, when multiplied by itself some number of times, equals a given number

father (verb)	root (verb)
make (offspring) by reproduction	take root and begin to grow
	cause to take roots
	become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style
	dig with the snout
	plant by the roots
	cheer for
	come into existence, originate

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