Talk:bacteri-
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This is one of a whole series of prefix entries where User:BrunoMed copied the content whole from prefixes ending with vowels to spellings without those vowels. Most of them I've dealt with so far were obvious nonsense, and I've deleted or reworked them (as well as blocking BrunoMed for a few days for disruptive edits). This one, though, is just plausible enough to bring it here.
This seems to me to be a variant of bacteria used in compounds, rather than a prefix. It might also be interpreted as an alternative form of bacterio-, but that seems less likely. Chuck Entz (talk) 22:14, 10 September 2016 (UTC)
- I've been looking at Special:WhatLinksHere/bacter- (and the other one) and neither of them seem to be linked to which suggests perhaps there are no terms formed using them. I quite like RFV for that reason. Renard Migrant (talk) 22:37, 11 September 2016 (UTC)
- They've only just been created, so it's not surprising they haven't been used. There are two entries, bacteraemia, and bacteroid, that could be construed as evidence for this, and a number of words starting with bacteri- not followed by either -a or- um (or -o, since bacterio- seems to be legitimate), that could be construed as evidence for bacteri-. Like I said, though, these seem to be compounds of bacterium or bacteria with part or all of the endings deleted. The etymology at bacteraemia at least, needs to be fixed either way, since the term refers to bacteria in the blood, not small staffs. Chuck Entz (talk) 23:33, 11 September 2016 (UTC)
As above
- Redirect both: to bacterio- Purplebackpack89 15:14, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
Redirected Purplebackpack89 16:23, 9 December 2016 (UTC)