Word Origin Summary

Flagellum is attested in Latin. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• Choanoflagellida

  Translingual · derived from

• Flegel

  English · borrowed from

• φραγέλλιον

  Ancient Greek · borrowed from

• flegil

  Old High German · derived from

• flagellist

  English · derived from

• flagel

  Romanian · borrowed from

• Flegel

  German · inherited from

• flagellate

  English · derived from

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