flagellate

Learned borrowing from Latin flagellō (“to whip, flog”) and its participle flagellātus.

• (verb, chiefly "to whip"):
  • enPR: flă′-jə-lāt′
  • (US) IPA^(key): /ˈflæ.d͡ʒəˌleɪt/

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  • Rhymes: -æd͡ʒəleɪt
• (adjective, noun; chiefly biological senses):
  • enPR: flə-jĕ′-lət
  • (US) IPA^(key): /fləˈd͡ʒɛ.lət/

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  • Rhymes: -ɛlət

flagellate (third-person singular simple present flagellates, present participle flagellating, simple past and past participle flagellated)

1. (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

2. (transitive, idiomatic) To harshly chide or chastise, to reprimand.
3. (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.

flagellate (comparative more flagellate, superlative most flagellate)

1. Resembling a whip.
2. (biology) Having flagella.

• flagellum

flagellate (plural flagellates)

1. (biology) Any organism that has flagella.

flagellate

1. inflection of flagellare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

flagellate f pl

1. feminine plural of flagellato

flagellāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of flagellō