Root (disambiguation)

A root is the part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors the plant body, and absorbs and stores water and nutrients.

Root or roots may also refer to:

Art, entertainment, and media

 * The Root (magazine), an online magazine focusing on African-American culture
 * The Roots, a location in the video game Kya: Dark Lineage

Films

 * Roots (film) (Raíces), a 1955 Mexican drama
 * Poor Relatives, also released as Roots, a 2005 Russian film
 * Roots, the English title for the 2019 Tamil film Sethum Aayiram Pon

Literature and stage plays

 * Koreni (novel) (English: The Roots), a 1954 novel by Serbian author Dobrica Ćosić
 * Roots (play), a 1958 play by Arnold Wesker
 * Roots: The Saga of an American Family, a 1976 novel by Alex Haley about slavery in the United States

Music

 * Root (chord), the fundamental note of a chord
 * Roots music (disambiguation)

Groups and individuals

 * Root (band), a Czech metal band
 * Root (singer), a Japanese singer
 * Root! (Australian band), an Australian alt-country band
 * The Roots, a hip-hop group from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Albums and EPs

 * Roots (Idrees Sulieman album), 1958
 * Roots (The Everly Brothers album), 1968
 * Roots (Curtis Mayfield album), 1971
 * Roots: John Lennon Sings the Great Rock & Roll Hits, 1975
 * Roots (Slide Hampton album), 1985
 * Roots (Sepultura album), 1996
 * Roots (Cedar Walton album), 1997
 * Root (album), 1999, by Thurston Moore
 * Roots (Blue Mountain album), 2001
 * Roots (Shawn McDonald album), 2008
 * R.O.O.T.S., a 2009 album by Flo Rida
 * Roots (Johnny Winter album), 2011
 * Roots (Orla Gartland EP), 2013
 * Roots (The Cavemen album), 2020
 * Roots, an album by Martin Fröst

Songs

 * "Root", a song by Deftones on the 1995 album Adrenaline
 * "The Root", a song by D'Angelo, on the 2000 album Voodoo
 * "Roots", by the band Spunge on their 2002 album The Story So Far
 * "Roots", a song on the 2006 Show of Hands album Witness
 * "Roots" (song), a song by Imagine Dragons
 * "Roots", a 2016 song by the band Parmalee
 * "Roots", by the band In This Moment on their 2017 album Ritual
 * "Roots (World Junior Song)", a 2018 by The Reklaws
 * "Roots", a 2019 song by Galantis and Valerie Broussard
 * "R.O.O.T.S.", a 2009 song by Flo Rida

Television

 * Roots (1977 miniseries), based upon the Alex Haley novel
 * Roots (2016 miniseries), remake of the 1977 miniseries
 * .hack//Roots, a 2006 anime series created by Bee Train
 * "Roots", 2018 television series episode, see list of One Day at a Time (2017 TV series) episodes
 * "Roots", 1990 television series episode, see list of Get a Life episodes
 * "The Roots" (The Amazing World of Gumball), an episode of The Amazing World of Gumball
 * "Roots", television series episode of Haven (season 2)

Businesses

 * Root, Inc., an American insurance company
 * Roots Canada, a clothing brand with stores worldwide
 * Roots (restaurant), a Michelin starred restaurant in York, in England

Computing

 * /root, the Unix superuser's home directory in the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
 * ROOT, an object-oriented multipurpose data analysis package
 * root, a name for the superuser account in some operating systems
 * Root directory, the first or top-most directory in a hierarchy
 * Root node, the node in a tree data structure from which every other node is accessible
 * ROOTS (software), a series of genealogy programs

Mathematics

 * $n$th root of a number
 * Root of unity, a complex number which is an $n$th root of one
 * Root of an equation, a solution of the equation
 * Root of a function, more meaningfully called zero of a function, an argument for which the function evaluates to zero
 * Digital root, the sum of a number's digits
 * Any of the elements of a root system of vectors
 * One designated vertex of a rooted tree in graph theory
 * The root or base of a number system

People

 * Root (surname), a family name
 * Roots Manuva (born 1972), British rapper
 * Rutaba Yaqub, Saudi Arabian singer, also known as "Roots"
 * Root, Japanese singer from Strawberry prince
 * Elmar Roots (1900–1962), Estonian veterinarian
 * Byron Root Pierce (1829–1924), American dentist and American Civil War veteran

Places

 * Root, Switzerland, a municipality in the district of Lucerne
 * Root River (disambiguation)

United States

 * Roots, Michigan, an unincorporated community in Henrietta Township, Jackson County
 * Root, New York, a town in Montgomery County
 * Roots, Pennsylvania, a census-designated place in Blair County
 * Root Township, Adams County, Indiana

Other uses

 * Root (board game), a game published by Leder Games
 * Root (Chinese constellation)
 * Root (linguistics), the core form of a word
 * Roots, one's cultural heritage
 * Root, Australasian slang for sexual intercourse