Where does “flagellate” come from?
flagellate (English) comes from Latin flagellatus, from Latin flagellō, from Latin flagellum, from Latin -lus, from Proto-Italic -elos, from Proto-Indo-European -e-lós, from Proto-Indo-European -lós — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.
flagellate (English): To whip or scourge; Resembling a whip; Having...
Definitions
- To whip or scourge; Resembling a whip; Having...
Ancestry of “flagellate”, step by step
flagellate traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Latin flagellatus
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | flagellatus | flogged, whipped, lashed or scourged; threshed,... |
| 2 | Latin | flagellō | to flog, whip, lash or scourge |
| 3 | Latin | flagellum | whip, lash, scourge; whip for driving animals;... |
| 4 | Latin | -lus | Alternative form of -ulus; diminutive suffix |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | -elos | Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |
via English flagellum
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | flagellum | In protists, a long, whiplike membrane-enclosed... |
Words derived from “flagellate”
- biflagellate
- flagellator
- choanoflagellate
- uniflagellate
- aflagellate
- silicoflagellate
- zooflagellate
- monoflagellate
- multiflagellate
- helioflagellate
- hexadecaflagellate
- flagellative
- haemoflagellate
- hemoflagellate
- microflagellate
- myxoflagellate
- nanoflagellate
- nonflagellate
- phytoflagellate
- picoflagellate
- quadriflagellate
- rhizoflagellate
- triflagellate