fligo

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyǵ- (to strike), cognate to Ancient Greek φλίβω (phlíbō), θλίβω (thlíbō, to rub, crush), Lithuanian bláižyti (to tear off, to scar), Latvian bliêzt (to beat), Russian близ (bliz, near), Czech blizna (stigma - the sticky part of a flower that receives pollen during pollination).[1]

Pronunciation

Verb

flīgō (present infinitive flīgere, perfect active flīxī, supine flīctum); third conjugation

  1. (transitive) to strike, strike down

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “flīgō, -ere”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 226

Further reading

  • fligo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • fligo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.