rootage

Noun (3)

1. fixedness by or as if by roots“strengthened by rootage in the firm soil of faith”
2. a developed system of rootsSynonyms: 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”Synonyms: beginningoriginrootsource