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- Latin · borrowed fromfūstīgātus
- English todayfustigate
First attested in 1656; borrowed from Latin fūstīgātus, perfect passive participle of fūstīgō (“to cudgel to death”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from fūstis (“a cudgel”) + -igō.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.