rootage
    n 1: fixedness by or as if by roots; "strengthened by rootage in
         the firm soil of faith"
    2: a developed system of roots [syn: rootage, root system]
    3: the place where something begins, where it springs into
       being; "the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"; "Jupiter
       was the origin of the radiation"; "Pittsburgh is the source
       of the Ohio River"; "communism's Russian root" [syn:
       beginning, origin, root, rootage, source]