bacil

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin bacillum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central) [bəˈsil]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [baˈsil]

Noun

bacil m (plural bacils)

1. bacillus (rod-shaped bacteria)

Further reading

• “bacil”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “bacil”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “bacil” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “bacil”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbat͡sɪl]

• Audio:

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Etymology 1

Noun

bacil m anim or m inan

1. bacillus

Declension

when animate:

Declension of bacil (hard masculine animate)

	singular	plural
nominative	bacil	bacilové
genitive	bacila	bacilů
dative	bacilovi, bacilu	bacilům
accusative	bacila	bacily
vocative	bacile	bacilové
locative	bacilovi, bacilu	bacilech
instrumental	bacilem	bacily

when inanimate:

Declension of bacil (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	bacil	bacily
genitive	bacilu	bacilů
dative	bacilu	bacilům
accusative	bacil	bacily
vocative	bacile	bacily
locative	bacilu	bacilech
instrumental	bacilem	bacily

Further reading

• “bacil”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “bacil”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “bacil”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Participle

bacil

1. masculine singular past active participle of bacit

Dutch

Etymology

Probably borrowed from French bacille, from German Bazillus or taxonomic name Bacillus, coined by Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baːˈsɪl/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: ba‧cil
• Rhymes: -ɪl

Noun

bacil m (plural bacillen, diminutive bacilletje n)

1. bacillus, bacterium of the genus Bacillus

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French bacille.

Noun

bacil m (plural bacili)

1. bacillus

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	bacil	bacilul	bacili	bacilii
genitive-dative	bacil	bacilului	bacili	bacililor
vocative	bacilule		bacililor

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin bacillum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bǎt͡siːl/
• Hyphenation: ba‧cil

Noun

bàcīl m anim (Cyrillic spelling ба̀цӣл)

1. bacillus

Declension

Declension of bacil

	singular	plural
nominative	bàcīl	bacìli
genitive	bacíla	bacílā
dative	bacilu	bacilima
accusative	bacila	bacile
vocative	bacile	bacili
locative	bacilu	bacilima
instrumental	bacilom	bacilima

References

• “bacil”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026