flagellate

Senso (Inglese)

Verb

1. (transitive) To whip or scourge.
2. (idiomatic, transitive) To harshly chide or chastise, to reprimand.
3. (transitive) Of a spermatozoon, to move its tail back and forth.

Adj

1. Resembling a whip.
2. Having flagella.

Noun

Any organism that has flagella.

Concetti

flagellare

flagellato

fustigare

flagelare

sinonimi

whip

scourge

flog

lash

whiplike

flagellate protozoan

switch

flagellated protozoan

flagellated

beat

lash-like

mastigophoran

mastigophore

lather

cudgel

strap

swinge

swish

cowhide

cat

😺

castigate

buff

birch

horsewhip

knock about

flail

Traduzioni

flageller

geißeln

flagelar

fouetter

flagelado

azotar

geselen

flagelar

mastigophora

frustigarse

dayak atma

Etimologia (Inglese)

Etymology tree
Latin flagrum
Latin -lus
Latin flagellum
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
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
Latin flagellātuslbor.
English flagellate
First attested in 1623; borrowed from Latin flagellātus perfect passive participle of flagellō (“to whip, flog”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).