flagellum

English

Etymology

From Latin flagellum (“whip”), diminutive of flagrum, from Proto-Indo-European *bhlag (“to strike”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fləˈdʒɛləm/

Noun

flagellum (plural flagella or flagellums or flagellae)

1. (biology) In protists, a long, whiplike membrane-enclosed organelle used for locomotion or feeding.
2. (biology) In bacteria, a long, whiplike proteinaceous appendage, used for locomotion.
3. A whip

Synonyms

• (organelle of protists): cilium
• (whip): whip

Translations

long whiplike organelle

• Bulgarian: камшиче n (kamšiče)
• Finnish: siima (fi)
• French: flagelle (fr) m
• Greek: μαστίγιο (el) n (mastígio)

• Russian: жгу́тик (ru) m (žgútik)
• Spanish: flagelo (es)
• Swedish: flagell (sv) c
• Ukrainian: джгу́тик m (džhútyk)

long whiplike appendage

• Bulgarian: камшиче n (kamšiče)
• Finnish: siima (fi)
• French: flagelle (fr) m
• Greek: μαστίγιο (el) n (mastígio)

• Russian: жгу́тик (ru) m (žgútik)
• Swedish: flagell (sv) c
• Ukrainian: джгу́тик m (džhútyk)

whip — see whip

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /flaːˈɣɛ.lʏm/
• Hyphenation: fla‧gel‧lum

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin flagellum.

Noun

flagellum m (plural flagella)

1. flagellum

   Synonyms: flagel, zweepdraad, zweephaar, zweepstaart

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Latin

Etymology

From flagrum (“scourge, whip”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /flaˈɡel.lum/, [fɫaˈɡɛl.lũ]

Noun

flagellum n (genitive flagellī); second declension

1. whip, lash, scourge
2. tentacle

Inflection

Second declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	flagellum	flagella
genitive	flagellī	flagellōrum
dative	flagellō	flagellīs
accusative	flagellum	flagella
ablative	flagellō	flagellīs
vocative	flagellum	flagella

Related terms

• flagellō

Descendants

• Catalan: flagell
• Dalmatian: frazial
• English: flagellum, flail, flagellant
• French: fléau

• Italian: flagello
• Portuguese: flagelo
• Romanian: flagel
• Spanish: flagelo

References

• flagellum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• flagellum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• du Cange, Charles (1883), “flagellum”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre
• “flagellum” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)