rooter

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

From root +‎ -er.

Noun

rooter (plural rooters)

1. One who, or that which, roots; one that tears up by the roots.
2. One who roots or rummages through something.
   • 1969, Stephen King, The Reaper's Image

     Like so many of the self-made industry emperors of the late 1800s, he had been little more than a pawnshop rooter masquerading in collector's clothing, a connoisseur of canvas monstrosities, trashy novels and poetry collections […]

Etymology 2

From root (“to cheer for”) +‎ -er.

Noun

rooter (plural rooters)

1. (US, slang) One who roots for, or applauds, something.
   • 2007, Vershawn Ashanti Young, Your Average Nigga: Performing Race, Literacy, and Masculinity (page 58)

     My oldest brother is a hefty twelve years older; we never quite bonded, though he's always been my supporter—a real rooter for me in academic studies.

Translations

One who roots for, or applauds, something

• Bulgarian: фен m (fen), запалянко (bg) m (zapaljanko)
• Russian: болельщик (ru) (bolelʹščik)

Anagrams

• reroot, torero

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French

Noun

rooter m (plural rooters)

1. (computing) router

Verb

rooter

1. (computing) to root

Conjugation

Conjugation of rooter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	rooter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	rootant /ʁɔ.ɔ.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		rooté /ʁɔ.ɔ.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	roote /ʁɔ.ɔt/	rootes /ʁɔ.ɔt/	roote /ʁɔ.ɔt/	rootons /ʁɔ.ɔ.tɔ̃/	rootez /ʁɔ.ɔ.te/	rootent /ʁɔ.ɔt/
	imperfect	rootais /ʁɔ.ɔ.tɛ/	rootais /ʁɔ.ɔ.tɛ/	rootait /ʁɔ.ɔ.tɛ/	rootions /ʁɔ.ɔ.tjɔ̃/	rootiez /ʁɔ.ɔ.tje/	rootaient /ʁɔ.ɔ.tɛ/
	past historic2	rootai /ʁɔ.ɔ.te/	rootas /ʁɔ.ɔ.ta/	roota /ʁɔ.ɔ.ta/	rootâmes /ʁɔ.ɔ.tam/	rootâtes /ʁɔ.ɔ.tat/	rootèrent /ʁɔ.ɔ.tɛʁ/
	future	rooterai /ʁɔ.ɔ.tʁe/	rooteras /ʁɔ.ɔ.tʁa/	rootera /ʁɔ.ɔ.tʁa/	rooterons /ʁɔ.ɔ.tʁɔ̃/	rooterez /ʁɔ.ɔ.tʁe/	rooteront /ʁɔ.ɔ.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	rooterais /ʁɔ.ɔ.tʁɛ/	rooterais /ʁɔ.ɔ.tʁɛ/	rooterait /ʁɔ.ɔ.tʁɛ/	rooterions /ʁɔ.ɔ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	rooteriez /ʁɔ.ɔ.tə.ʁje/	rooteraient /ʁɔ.ɔ.tʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	roote /ʁɔ.ɔt/	rootes /ʁɔ.ɔt/	roote /ʁɔ.ɔt/	rootions /ʁɔ.ɔ.tjɔ̃/	rootiez /ʁɔ.ɔ.tje/	rootent /ʁɔ.ɔt/
	imperfect2	rootasse /ʁɔ.ɔ.tas/	rootasses /ʁɔ.ɔ.tas/	rootât /ʁɔ.ɔ.ta/	rootassions /ʁɔ.ɔ.ta.sjɔ̃/	rootassiez /ʁɔ.ɔ.ta.sje/	rootassent /ʁɔ.ɔ.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	roote /ʁɔ.ɔt/	—	rootons /ʁɔ.ɔ.tɔ̃/	rootez /ʁɔ.ɔ.te/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).