flagellate
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Etymology
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Learned borrowing from Latin flagellō (“to whip, flog”) and its participle flagellātus.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɛlət
Verb
flagellate (third-person singular simple present flagellates, present participle flagellating, simple past and past participle flagellated)
- (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
- (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
to whip or scourge
Adjective
flagellate (comparative more flagellate, superlative most flagellate)
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
resembling a whip
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biology: having flagella
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Noun
flagellate (plural flagellates)
Translations
organism with flagella
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Italian
Etymology 1
Verb
flagellate
- inflection of flagellare:
Etymology 2
Participle
flagellate f pl
Latin
Verb
flagellāte
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