English → Latin
“scourge” in Latin
flagrumwhip, scourge, lashflagellumwhip, lash, scourge; whip for driving animals (riding horses, cattle etc.); tentaclescorpiōa scorpion; a kind of prickly sea fish, possibly the scorpionfish or sculpin; a kind of prickly plantscuticastrap, lash, whippestisdisease, plague, pestilence, infection; a pest; destruction, ruin, deathperniciēsruin, destruction; disaster, calamity; bane, pestverbumword; proverb, saying; verbĪsidōrusa male given name, equivalent to English Isidore or Isadorelōrumthong (leather strap); reins of a bridle; whip, lash, scourgeflagellōto flog, whip, lash or scourge; to thresh or flail (grain)
The English word scourge itself goes back to Latin corium, through *excoriāta.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
scourge s.
PROP., flagrum, flagellum (the proper words; consisting of single thongs): scorpio (armed with prickles; Vid: Isidorus, Orig., 5, 27). ☞ The severest punishment was the flagellum, s., ; next was the milder scutica, or the lora, -orum, neuter, whip of thongs; and after this the ferula; i. e., rod of the plant νάρθηξ; Vid: Hor., Sat. 1, 3, 119, sq.
Figuratively, pestis: pernicies: verba (plur.): to hold the scourage of criticism over anybody, *acerbe or severe reprehendere aliquem. A scourage of God, *immissus a Deo, ut saeviret in omne flagitium voluptatibus liquefacti generis humani. The scourage of a country, reipublicae or patriae pestis
scourge v.
To beat with rods, etc., flagris or flagellis caedere; flagellare (post-Augustan); virgis verberare, caedere, mulctare (Liv.); verberibus accipere or excipere (Cic.).
T o punish, Vid.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for scourge?
- The usual Latin words for “scourge” are flagrum, flagellum, scorpiō; also scutica, pestis, perniciēs. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.