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flagrum

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Latin

Etymology

Probably from *bʰleh₂- (to swing back and forth) + *-rom, whence also flāgitō (I demand).

Pronunciation

Noun

flagrum n (genitive flagrī); second declension

  1. whip, scourge, lash

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Derived terms

References

  • flagrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • flagrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • flagrum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • flagrum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • flagrum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “flagrum”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 224
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