Where does “autoflagela” come from?
autoflagela (Romanian) comes from Romanian flagela, from French flageller, 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.
autoflagela (Romanian): to self-flagellate
Definitions
- to self-flagellate
Ancestry of “autoflagela”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | flagela | to flog |
| 2 | French | flageller | To beat severely, with a scourge or a whip; To... |
| 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 |