The corpus record — Latin

flagrum

whip

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Where it lives

Dittochaeon 1 · 8.17/10k
Otho 1 · 6.34/10k
Apocolocyntosis 1 · 3.69/10k
Persa 2 · 2.54/10k
Amphitruo 2 · 2.03/10k
Apotheosis 1 · 1.35/10k
Casina 1 · 1.29/10k
Asinaria 1 · 1.24/10k
Fabulae Aesopiae 1 · 0.91/10k
Pseudolus 1 · 0.9/10k
Ad Nationes 1 · 0.67/10k
Metamorphoses 3 · 0.56/10k

Densest 12 of 16 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. flagrum — de Vaan

flagrum 'whip' [η. ο] (ΡΙ.+) Derivatives: flagellum 'whip, lash' (Cato+yyflagriiriba 'one who wears out whips by being flogged' (PI). Pit. *flagro-'whip'. PIE *bhlHg-ro-. See s.v. flagito. Bibl.: WH I: 51 If, EM 238, IEW 154, Schrijver 1991: 185,191, LIV ?*bhleh2g-. fleets flamen, -inis 'certain kind of priest, flamen' [m. ri\ (Vairo+) Derivatives: Flaminius 'a Roman gentilicium' (Varro+). Pit. *fla(d)mert-7 … — [de Vaan, s.v. flagrum, p. 238]

2. flā^grum — Lewis & Short

flā^grum, i, n.cf.: fligo, af-fligo, etc. and flagellum,

I a whip, scourge, lash (syn.: verber, scutica, flagellum).

I Lit., Plaut. Am. 4, 2, 10; id. Cas. 1, 35; id. Merc. 2, 3, 81; Liv. 28, 11, 6; Suet. Oth. 2; Juv. 5, 173; Dig. 47, 10, 9 al.—

II Transf.: ad sua qui domitos deduxit flagra Quirites, i. e. to servitude, Juv. 10, 109.—As a term of reproach applied to a slave: Gymnasium flagri, salve, School for the scourge, i. e. on whom the scourge is often tried, Plaut. As. 2, 2, 31: lassitudo conservum, rediviae flagri, i. e. whose skin is cut up by the lash, Titin. ap. Fest. s. v. redivia, p. 270, 20 Müll.

In the wild

6 of 20 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. flagrum (scan pp. 238-239; entry #585). Root candidates: *flagro-, *bhleh2g-.
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. flagrum (scan p. 262; entry #4102).

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