If x is an element of a field K and n is a positive integer, we have both a symbol and a name for a root of the polynomial t^n - x = 0: we denote it by x^{1/n} and call it an nth root of x.
Of course nth roots play a vital role in field theory, e.g. in the characterization of solvable extensions in characteristic 0. However, in characteristic p > 0, the extraction of a p-power root is a much different business: it gives rise to purely inseparable extensions, not composition factors of solvable Galois extensions.
To repair the characterization of solvable extensions in characteristic p as those being attainable as a tower of "radical" extensions, one needs to include the operation of taking roots of Artin-Schreier polynomials: t^q - t - x = 0, for q = p^a a power of the characteristic.
Finally my question: do we have a name for an element t solving the equation t^q - t = x and/or a special notation for it? I do not know one. Similarly, whereas classically we often speak of x as being "an nth power", in this case I find myself writing "x is in the image of the Artin-Schreier isogeny \rho". Is there something better than this?