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1 kvaîratrót
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2 RÓT
* * *n. insensibility (from a blow); slá e-n í r., to stun, render senseless by a blow; liggja í roti, to lie stunned.* * *f., pl. rætr (rœtr), [a word common to all Teut, languages, cp.also Lat. rādix]:—a root; hvers hann af rót um renn, Hm. 139; rót af grasi, Pr. 471; íllr ávöxtr af íllri rót, Fms. ii. 48: metaph., vera rót ( cause) undir e-u, Sturl. ii. 72; koma af rótum e-s, id., Fms. ix. 254; rót ok upphaf, Fb. iii. 245; af hverjum rótum þetta hefði risit, 308; af rót vándra manna, Bs. 11. 93.2. the lower part of a tree; rót kerlingar … hann tvíhendi oxina til rótarinnar, Grett. 151: a root of a tree used in witchcraft, of an enchanted thing, engi maðr skal hafa í húsi sinn staf eðr stalla, vit eða blót, eðr rót, eða þat er til heiðins siðar veit, N. G. L. i. 383, 389, cp. Grett. l. c.3. mathem. a root (square, cubic), MS. 544. 154, passim.COMPDS: rótardráttr, rótartré, rótaklumba. -
3 FAÐMR
(-s, -ar), m.1) the out-stretched or embracing arms; sofa (liggja) í faðmi e-m, to sleep (lie) in one’s arms; leggjast í faðma, to embrace each other; fallast í faðma, to be set off against each other, balance each other (málin vóru í dóm lagin, ok féllust vígin í faðma);2) bosom (legg hönd þína í sjálfs þíns faðm);3) a measure of length, fathom.* * *m. [cp. Goth. faþa = φραγμός; A. S. fæðem; Engl. fathom; O. H. G. fadam; Germ. faden or fadem = Lat. filum; Dan. favn; Swed. famn; the root is akin to that of Gr. πετάννυμι, cp. Lat. patere, pandere, prop. to stretch out]:— a fathom:1. a measure = two passus, Hb. 732. 5, Grág. ii. 262, 336, Landn. 35, 131, Fms. viii. 416, Eluc. 43, Gísl. 14; very freq. used in measuring depths or heights; thus fertugt djúp, þrítugr hamarr, etc. invariably means forty fathoms deep, thirty fathoms high; whereas roads are measured by ‘fet’, stuffs, etc. by ‘ells’.2. the arms; brjóst ok f., Fms. v. 344, Sturl. i. 214, Rm. 16, Th. 9, Am. 73; sofa í faðmi e-m, to sleep in one’s arms, Hm. 114; hafa barn í faðmi, Fms. vii. 31: the bosom, Stj. 260. Exod. iv. 6: often in the phrase, fallask í faðma, to square one thing with another, set off against, Landn. 307, Orkn. 224, Glúm. 396, Bs. i. 696, Fs. 139, Gullþ. 19. -
4 sub-dufl
-tripl, n., of extracting the square and the cubic root, Alg.
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