flagellate

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Etymology

    Etymology tree
    Latin flagrum
    Latin -lus
    Latin flagellum
    Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
    Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
    Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
    Proto-Italic *-āō
    Latin -ō
    Latin flagellō
    Proto-Indo-European *-tós
    Proto-Italic *-tos
    Latin -tus
    English flagellate

    Learned borrowing from Latin flagellō (“to whip, flog”) and its participle flagellātus.

    Pronunciation

    Verb

    flagellate (third-person singular simple present flagellates, present participle flagellating, simple past and past participle flagellated)

    1. (transitive) To whip or scourge.
      • 1976 December 11, David Holland, “A Conversation With Maitresse”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 24, page 13:
        Red welts rising from a flagellated back
    2. (transitive) Of a spermatozoon, to move its tail back and forth.
      • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 63:
        The gigantic egg sits, and the frantic and tiny sperm flagellates its tail to cross vast distances on its quest for dissolution in the huge egg.

    Translations

    Adjective

    flagellate (comparative more flagellate, superlative most flagellate)

    1. Resembling a whip.
    2. (biology) Having flagella.

    Derived terms

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    Noun

    flagellate (plural flagellates)

    1. (biology) Any organism that has flagella.

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    Italian

    Etymology 1

    Verb

    flagellate

    1. inflection of flagellare:
      1. second-person plural present indicative
      2. second-person plural imperative

    Etymology 2

    Participle

    flagellate f pl

    1. feminine plural of flagellato

    Latin

    Verb

    flagellāte

    1. second-person plural present active imperative of flagellō
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