adj
Meaning 1
Resembling a whip.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
flagellate
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Pronunciation
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flə-jĕ′-lət
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US: /fləˈd͡ʒɛ.lət/
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flă′-jə-lāt′
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adj
Meaning 2
Having flagella.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, natural-sciences
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noun
Meaning 3
Any organism that has flagella.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, natural-sciences
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verb
Meaning 4
To whip or scourge.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
Meaning 5
To harshly chide or chastise, to reprimand.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: idiomatic, transitive
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verb
Meaning 6
Of a spermatozoon, to move its tail back and forth.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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adjective
Meaning 7
having or resembling a lash or whip (as does a flagellum)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: flagellated, whiplike, lash-like
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 8
a usually nonphotosynthetic free-living protozoan with whiplike appendages; some are pathogens of humans and other animals
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: flagellate protozoan, flagellated protozoan, mastigophoran, mastigophore
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: protozoan, protozoon
Narrower terms: dinoflagellate, Leishmania, genus Leishmania, zoomastigote, zooflagellate, hypermastigote, polymastigote, costia, Costia necatrix, giardia, trichomonad
verb
Meaning 9
whip
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- The religious fanatics flagellated themselves
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: scourge
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: flog, welt, whip, lather, lash, slash, strap, trounce
History
Etymology
First attested in 1867; from flagellum + -ate (adjective-forming suffix) as well as Latin flagellum + -ate. The noun was substantivized from the adjective, see -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bhleh2-? Proto-Indo-European *-rós Latin flagrum Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -lum Latin flagellum Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh2yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h2tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō 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).
Across languages
Translations
27 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Finnish: piiskamainen — resembling a whip
- Polish: biczowy — resembling a whip
- Bulgarian: камшичест (kamšičest) — biology: having flagella
- Catalan: flagel·lar — biology: having flagella
- Finnish: siima- — biology: having flagella
- Polish: wiciowy — biology: having flagella
- Russian: жгу́тиковый (žgútikovyj) — biology: having flagella
- Chinese Mandarin: 鞭毛蟲 /鞭毛虫 (biānmáochóng) — organism with flagella
- Finnish: siimaeliö — organism with flagella
- German: Geißeltierchen — organism with flagella
- Italian: flagellato — organism with flagella
- Polish: wiciowiec — organism with flagella
- Russian: жгутиконо́сец (žgutikonósec) — organism with flagella
- Vietnamese: trùng roi — organism with flagella
- Bulgarian: бичувам (bičuvam) — to whip or scourge
- Catalan: flagel·lar — to whip or scourge
- Esperanto: skurĝi — to whip or scourge
- Finnish: piiskata — to whip or scourge
- Italian: flagelare — to whip or scourge
- Latin: flagellō — to whip or scourge
- Polish: biczować — to whip or scourge
- Quechua: asut'iy — to whip or scourge
- Russian: поро́ть (porótʹ) — to whip or scourge
- Spanish: flagelar — to whip or scourge
- Swedish: flagellera — to whip or scourge
- Swedish: piska — to whip or scourge
- Swedish: gissla — to whip or scourge