bacillus

See also: Bacillus and Bacilli

English

bacilli

Wikispecies

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin bacillus (“little staff, wand”), diminutive of baculum (“stick, staff, walking stick”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bæˈsɪl.əs/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

bacillus (plural bacilli)

1. Any of various rod-shaped, spore-forming aerobic bacteria in the genus Bacillus, some of which cause disease.
   • 1895, H. G. Wells, The Stolen Bacillus:

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

   • 1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The 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 noxious bacillus.

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

     The “bacillus of 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 genus Bacillus

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

  Mandarin: 桿菌 / 杆菌 (zh) (gǎnjūn), 芽孢桿菌 / 芽孢杆菌 (yábāo gǎnjùn)

• Czech: bacil (cs) m
• Estonian: batsill
• Finnish: basilli (fi)
• French: bacille (fr) m
• Georgian: ბაცილა (bacila)
• German: Bazillus (de) m
• Greek: βάκιλλος m (vákillos)
• Gujarati: દંડાણુ (daṇḍāṇu)
• Hindi: बैसिलस (baisilas), दण्डाणु m (daṇḍāṇu)
• Hungarian: bacilus (hu)
• Icelandic: staflaga baktería f, baktería (is) f
• Italian: bacillo (it)
• Japanese: 桿菌 (ja) (かんきん, kankin), バシラス (bashirasu), バチルス (bachirusu)
• Khmer: ទណ្ឌាណូ (toandienoo)
• Korean: 간균(桿菌) (gan'gyun)
• Latvian: bacilis m
• Lithuanian: bacila (lt) f
• Macedonian: бацил m (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: бацил m

  Roman: bacil m

• Slovak: bacil m
• Slovene: bacillus m
• 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 of baculus (“staff, walking stick”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [baˈkɪl.lʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [baˈt͡ʃil.lus]

Noun

bacillus m (genitive bacillī); second declension

1. Alternative form of bacillum

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	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: баци́лла f (bacílla)
• → Translingual: Bacillus (learned)

References

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