Where does “myxoflagellate” come from?
myxoflagellate (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.
myxoflagellate (English): A swimming peritrichous organism of the Myxogastria that develops in moist environments and usually has two flagella
Definitions
- A swimming peritrichous organism of the Myxogastria that develops in moist environments and usually has two flagella
Ancestry of “myxoflagellate”, step by step
myxoflagellate 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 |