# 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) (Spanish: 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
* "The Roots" (The Amazing World of Gumball), a 2016 episode
* "Roots" (Doctors), a 2003 episode
* "Roots" (Get a Life), a 1991 episode
* "Roots" (Haven), a 2011 episode
* "Roots" (One Day at a Time) a 2018 episode

## 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

* nth root of a number
** Root of unity, a complex number which is an nth 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