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As both the noun and verb matured, various extended senses influenced by the functions of roots sprang forth from them—for example, "Money is the root of all evil," "a dance rooted in African tradition," "The captain rooted out the mutinous crew members" which suggests a direct and complete removal as if pulling out by the roots.

In the early 16th century, another verbal root began to be used. Originally, it referred to the pig's act of rooting in search for food.

The animal's rooting then became associated with other acts of searching especially those involving poking or digging about, literally and figuratively, as in "Engineers are working at rooting out the cause of the problem. The exact origin of the fourth homograph—the "cheering" one "rooting for the underdog," "fans rooting their team on" —is a mystery, but it may be a 19th-century alteration of rout , a British dialectal verb meaning "to low loudly" or "to bellow" as cattle do, and sometimes fans.

Since the 16th century, rout has shared the "animal" sense of root "pigs routing in the earth" , and this rout may have begun as a variant. The change in vowel puzzles etymologists, however.

A slightly more common meaning of the verb is "to force out as if by digging":. He said his name was Douglas Caddy and he introduced a small, anemic-looking man next to him as the attorney of record, Joseph Rafferty, Jr. Rafferty appeared to have been routed out of bed; he was unshaven and squinted as if the light hurt his eyes. The familiar rout —referring to acts of defeating someone or something as in "The election was a rout," "The team routed their opponent " —arrived in English sometime during the lates via Middle French route , meaning "defeat.

Route has no connection to either root or rout in meaning or origin—it's from Vulgar Latin rupta , a shortening of rupta via , literally, "broken way, forced passage. No digging or searching is involved. Another cause is the common association of the homophone root with plants: "What do plants have to do with cheering someone on?

The incorrect spelling of route as rout could quite possibly be from a writer's unfamiliarity with its "e" spelling, as well, but it is more likely that it occurs as an oversight. Another factor is that route and rout are spelled the same when inflected in the past tense and the present participle tense; in such cases, you can only differentiate them from context.

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