Where does “multiflagellate” come from?
multiflagellate (English) comes from English flagellate, 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.
multiflagellate (English): Having several flagella
Definitions
- Having several flagella
Ancestry of “multiflagellate”, step by step
multiflagellate traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English flagellate
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | flagellate | To whip or scourge; Resembling a whip; Having... |
| 2 | Latin | flagellatus | flogged, whipped, lashed or scourged; threshed,... |
| 3 | Latin | flagellō | to flog, whip, lash or scourge |
| 4 | Latin | flagellum | whip, lash, scourge; whip for driving animals;... |
| 5 | Latin | -lus | Alternative form of -ulus; diminutive suffix |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -elos | Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |
via English multi
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | multi | A multituberculate; Neolamprologus multifasciatus |
| 2 | English | multituberculate | Having molars with multiple rows of cusps; Any of... |
| 3 | English | tuberculate | Having tubercles; Tubercular |
| 4 | Latin | tuberculatus | warty, tuberculate |
| 5 | Latin | tūberculum | a small swelling, bump, or protuberance; a boil, pimple, tubercle |
| 6 | Latin | tūber | a hump, bump, swelling, protuberance; excrescence |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | tūβos | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | tewh₂- | to swell; to crowd; to be strong |