synonym of Peitsche (“whip”) · scourge (whip used for flagellation) · scourge (persistent source of harm, especially when seen as divine punishment)
çekim: çoğul Geißeln · tamlayan Geißeln
eş: Bakteriengeißel, Flagellum
köken: From Middle High German geisel(e), from Old High German geisila (“whip”). Cognate with Dutch gesel. The spelling with -ß- reflects sporadic devoicing; compare the frequent pronunciations of niesen or Preiselbeere. Its use for distinguishing between Geißel and Geisel (“hostage”) is an arbitrary convention, which fully established itself only around 1900. (The two words are not related but became…
aile: begeißelt, Geißel der Menschheit, Geißelhieb, geißeln
köken: From Middle Dutch ellende (“abroad, exile”), from Old Dutch elilendi (“exile”), from Proto-West Germanic *alljas (“other”) + *land (“land”), compare German Elend (“misery”).
to torture (intentionally inflict severe pain or suffering on) · to torture, torment, rack, be killing (cause severe suffering to) · to torment, rack (cause mental suffering to)
çekim: geçmiş βασάνισα · ortaç έχοντας βασανίσει · şimdiki βασανίζει · ulaç βασανίζοντας
köken: From Ancient Greek βασανίζω (basanízō, “to examine, to investigate, put to the test”), from βάσανος (básanos, “touchstone”) + -ίζω (-ízō, “verbal suffix”), literally “to test with touchstone”. The modern sense of "torture" developed from the association of investigations and inquisitions of prisoners with physical tortures.
köken: Probably from Latin cyma, from Ancient Greek κῦμα (kûma, “swell, wave, billow”). The meaning was probably derived from the swellings from diseases such as the bubonic plague. Compare also Aromanian ciumã (“peak, summit”), which has a meaning shared by most other Romance languages, and Albanian qime.
köken: From Proto-Italic *klādēs, from Proto-Indo-European *kl̥h₂d-, from *kelh₂- (“to beat, break”). Cognate with Proto-Celtic *kladiwos, Ancient Greek κλάδος (kládos), Proto-Balto-Slavic *kálˀtei (“to beat”) (compare Lithuanian kálti (“to hammer”), Old Church Slavonic клати (klati, “to stab”)), Old English hild (“war, battle”). Related to Latin percellō, procella.
… ibi caedēs omnia obtinuit; castra capiuntur et nē nūntius quidem clādis relictus.