flagellation

• IPA^(key): /ˌflædʒəˈleɪʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

From French flagellation, from Latin flagellatio, from flagellare, from flagellum, diminutive of flagrum (“whip”).

flagellation (countable and uncountable, plural flagellations)

1. A beating consisting of lashes, notably as corporal punishment or mortification, such as a whipping or scourging.

• flagellant, flagellantism
• flogging
• self-flagellation

From flagellum (“elongated filiform appendage”), itself a diminutive of Latin flagrum (“whip”), closely related to etymology 1.

flagellation (plural flagellations)

1. (botany) The formation by plants of flagella, or their arrangement.

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967