flagellum vs scourge what difference

what is difference between flagellum and scourge

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fləˈdʒɛləm/
• Rhymes: -ɛləm

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

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin flagellum.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

flagellum m (plural flagella)

1. flagellum

   Synonyms: flagel, zweepdraad, zweephaar, zweepstaart

Latin

Etymology

From flagrum (“scourge, whip”) +‎ -ellum.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /flaˈɡel.lum/, [fɫ̪äˈɡɛlːʲʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /flaˈd͡ʒel.lum/, [flɑˈd͡ʒɛlːum]

Noun

flagellum n (genitive flagellī); second declension

1. whip, lash, scourge
2. whip for driving animals (riding horses, cattle etc.)
3. tentacle
4. young branch, shoot

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Related terms

• flagellō
• flagrum

Synonyms

• scutica
• lorum
• verber

Descendants

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’s 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

English

Etymology

From Old French escorgier (“to whip”), from Vulgar Latin excorrigiare, consisting of ex- (“thoroughly”) + corrigia (“thong, whip”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /skɜːdʒ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /skɝdʒ/
  • (US, also) IPA^(key): /skɔɹdʒ/

• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒ

Noun

scourge (plural scourges)

1. A source of persistent trouble such as pestilence that causes pain and suffering or widespread destruction.

2. A means to inflict such pain or destruction.
3. A whip, often of leather.

Translations

Verb

scourge (third-person singular simple present scourges, present participle scourging, simple past and past participle scourged)

1. To strike with a scourge; to flog.

Synonyms

• (to whip or scourge): Thesaurus:whip

Translations

See also

• Scourge in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021), “scourge”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Anagrams

• scrouge

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