flagellum

== English == === Etymology === From Latin flagellum (“whip”), diminutive of flagrum. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /fləˈd͡ʒɛləm/ Rhymes: -ɛləm === Noun === flagellum (plural flagella or flagellums or (proscribed) flagellae) (biology) In protists, a long, whiplike membrane-enclosed organelle used for locomotion or feeding. (biology) In bacteria, a long, whiplike proteinaceous appendage, used for locomotion. (formal) A whip. (Can we add an example for this sense?) ==== Synonyms ==== (organelle of protists): cilium (whip): whip ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== == Dutch == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin flagellum. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /flaːˈɣɛ.lʏm/ Hyphenation: fla‧gel‧lum === Noun === flagellum m (plural flagella, no diminutive) flagellum Synonyms: flagel, zweepdraad, zweephaar, zweepstaart == French == === Pronunciation === === Noun === flagellum m (plural flagellums) flagellum (whip) == Latin == === Etymology === From flagrum (“scourge, whip”) +‎ -lum. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [fɫaˈɡɛl.lũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [flaˈd͡ʒɛl.lum] === Noun === flagellum n (genitive flagellī); second declension whip, lash, scourge Synonyms: verber, flagrum, corium, lōrum, habēna, scutica whip for driving animals (riding horses, cattle etc.) tentacle young branch, shoot ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). ==== Derived terms ==== flagellō ==== Descendants ==== Borrowings: === 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 "flagellum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “flagellum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.