bacillus

See also:BacillusandBacilli

English

bacilli

Wikispecies

Etymology

Learned borrowingfromLatinbacillus(“little staff, wand”),diminutive ofbaculum(“stick, staff, walking stick”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/bæˈsɪl.əs/

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Noun

bacillus(pluralbacilli)

1. Any of variousrod-shaped,spore-formingaerobicbacteriain thegenusBacillus,some of which causedisease.
   • 1895,H. G. Wells,The Stolen Bacillus:

     'This again,' said the Bacteriologist, slipping a glass slide under the microscope, 'is a preparation of the celebratedBacillusof cholera - the cholera germ.'

   • 1913,Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”,inThe Poison Belt[…],London; New York, N.Y.:Hodder and Stoughton,→OCLC:

     "You will conceive a bunch of grapes," said he, "which are covered by some infinitesimal but noxiousbacillus.

2. Anybacilliform(rod-shaped) bacterium.
3. (figurative,by extension)Something which spreads like bacterial infection.
   • 1934[2018], Gottfried Haberler quoted in Quinn Slobodian,Globalists,71:

     The “bacillusof boom or depression,” he wrote, travels freely “from country to country.”

Derived terms

• Actinobacillus
• bacillicidal
• bacillicide
• bacilliferous
• colibacillus
• comma bacillus
• Döderlein's bacillus
• Eberth's bacillus
• Klebs-Löffler bacillus
• Koch's bacillus
• microbacillus
• thiobacillus

Translations

any bacteria in the genusBacillus

• Albanian:bacil(sq)
• Arabic:عَصَوِيَّةf(ʕaṣawiyya)
• Armenian:ցուպիկ(hy)(cʻupik),բացիլ(hy)(bacʻil)
• Basque:bazilo(eu)
• Belarusian:бацы́лаf(bacýla)
• Bulgarian:баци́л(bg)m(bacíl)
• Burmese:ဗက်တီးရီးယားပိုး(bakti:ri:ya:pui:)
• Catalan:bacil(ca)m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin:Can khuẩn／Can khuẩn(zh)(gǎnjūn),Nha bào can khuẩn／Nha bào can khuẩn(yábāo gǎnjùn)

• Czech:bacil(cs)m
• Estonian:batsill
• Finnish:basilli(fi)
• French:bacille(fr)m
• Georgian:ბაცილა(bacila)
• German:Bazillus(de)m
• Greek:βάκιλλοςm(vákillos)
• Gujarati:દંડાણુ(daṇḍāṇu)
• Hindi:बैसिलस(baisilas),दण्डाणुm(daṇḍāṇu)
• Hungarian:bacilus(hu)
• Icelandic:staflaga bakteríaf,baktería(is)f
• Italian:bacillo(it)
• Japanese:Can khuẩn(ja)(かんきん, kankin),バシラス(bashirasu),バチルス(bachirusu)
• Khmer:ទណ្ឌាណូ(toandienoo)
• Korean:간균( can khuẩn )(gan'gyun)
• Latvian:bacilism
• Lithuanian:bacila(lt)f
• Macedonian:бацилm(bacil)
• Persian:باسیلوس(bâsilus)
• Polish:laseczka(pl)f,pałeczka(pl)f
• Portuguese:bacilo(pt)m
• Romanian:bacil(ro)m
• Russian:баци́лла(ru)f(bacílla)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic:бацилm

  Roman:bacilm

• Slovak:bacilm
• Slovene:bacillusm
• Spanish:bacilo(es)m
• Swedish:bacill(sv)c
• Tagalog:habishay
• Thai:บาซิลลัส(baasinlát)
• Turkish:bacillus
• Ukrainian:баци́ла(uk)f(bacýla)
• Vietnamese:trực khuẩn(vi)
• Volapük:bazil

Anagrams

• subcalli

Latin

Etymology

Diminutive ofbaculus(“staff, walking stick”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key):/baˈkil.lus/,[bäˈkɪlːʲʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key):/baˈt͡ʃil.lus/,[bäˈt͡ʃilːus]

Noun

bacillusm(genitivebacillī);second declension

1. Alternative form ofbacillum

Declension

Second-declensionnoun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	bacillus	bacillī
Genitive	bacillī	bacillōrum
Dative	bacillō	bacillīs
Accusative	bacillum	bacillōs
Ablative	bacillō	bacillīs
Vocative	bacille	bacillī

Descendants

• French:bacille
• Galician:bacelo
• Russian:баци́ллаf(bacílla)

References

• bacillusinGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français,Hachette.
• bacillusinRamminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed))Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1],pre-publication website, 2005-2016