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Latin
Etymology
flagrum (“scrourge”) + terō (“wear out”)
Pronunciation
Noun
flagritrība m (genitive flagritrībae); first declension
- one that wears out whips, whipping boy
Declension
First-declension noun.
References
- “flagritriba”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- flagritriba in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- flagritriba in D. P. Simpson, Cassell's Latin Dictionary, Wiley Publishing, 1968