Etymograph

English

flagellation

Flagellation comes from Latin flagellum ‘whip, lash, scourge’, and goes back to flagrum.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEflagrum‘whip’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEflagellum‘whip, lash, scourge’diminutive of flagrum
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEflagellare
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEflagellatio
  5. Frenchc. 1600–presentflagellation
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1961same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEflagrum‘whip’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEflagellum‘whip, lash, scourge’diminutive of flagrum
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEflagellare
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEflagellatio
  5. Frenchc. 1600–presentflagellation
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1961same form

Earliest quotation: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs: “As a means of restoring vigor to the generative…”

Linked words

through Latin flagellum ‘whip, lash, scourge’

frail, flail, 5 more

Another origin of flagellation

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*bʰleh₂-‘to swing back and forth’uncertain
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEflagrum‘whip’
  3. English1500–presentflagellum‘elongated filiform appendage’
  4. Englishtodayflagellation

Today it means

noun Beating, or an instance of beating, consisting of lashes, notably as corporal punishment or mortification, such as a whipping or scourging.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Latin flagrum / flagellation

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