flagelo
See also: flageló
Portuguese
Etymology 1
Learned borrowing from Latin flagellum.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /flaˈʒɛ.lu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /flaˈʒɛ.lo/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /flɐˈʒe.lu/
- Hyphenation: fla‧ge‧lo
Audio (Brazil) (file)
Noun
flagelo m (plural flagelos)
- scourge; a whip, especially one used to hit people
- scourge (a persistent pest, illness, or source of trouble)
- bane, a cause of suffering or source of pain and anguish
- (microbiology) flagellum (whip-like appendage in bacteria and protists)
Synonyms
- (whip): chicote, açoite, látego, relho, habena
Related terms
- flagelar
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /flɐˈʒɛ.lu/
- Hyphenation: fla‧ge‧lo
Verb
flagelo
- first-person singular present indicative of flagelar
Further reading
- “flagelo” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /flaˈxelo/ [flaˈxe.lo]
- Rhymes: -elo
- Syllabification: fla‧ge‧lo
Etymology 1
From Latin flagellum.
Noun
flagelo m (plural flagelos)
- whip
- Synonyms: látigo, azote
- (biology) flagellum
- calamity, sorrow, affliction
- disaster
Related terms
- flagelar
Verb
flagelo
- first-person singular present indicative of flagelar
Further reading
- “flagelo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014