rootage

Noun

• 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
    

• a developed system of roots

• fixedness by or as if by roots
  • strengthened by rootage in the firm soil of faith
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  beginning , origin , root , source , root system