fligo

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyǵ- (to strike), cognate to Ancient Greek φλίβω (phlíbō), θλίβω (thlíbō, to rub, crush), Lithuanian bláižyti (to tear off, to scar), Latvian bliêzt (to beat), Russian близ (bliz, near), Czech blizna (stigma, the sticky part of a flower that receives pollen during pollination).[1]

Pronunciation

Verb

flīgō (present infinitive flīgere, perfect active flīxī, supine flīctum); third conjugation

  1. (transitive) to strike, strike down

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “flīgō, -ere”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 226

Further reading

  • fligo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • fligo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.