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From an unattested noun *castis(“purity, virtue”) + -igō(“act, make”), the latter a suffixal form of agō. The noun *castis is thought to be formed from careō(“I lack”) + *-tis; the same root is found in castus(“chaste”). For the ending, compare fūstīgō and fatīgō, the formations of which also involve ti-derivations.
Pueros vero matres et magistri castigare etiam solent, nec verbis solum, sed etiam verberibus. Si quid in domestico luctu hilarius ab is factum est aut dictum, plorare cogunt. Quid?
Mothers and teachers are used to chastise children not only with words, but also with hits of the rod. If the children do or say something rather "cheerful" in a small argument, they make them cry. Why?
→ Proto-West Germanic: *kastīgōn (see there for further descendants)
References
“castigo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“castigo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
castigo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
(ambiguous) a stern critic of morals: severus morum castigator
^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 93