bacillus
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin bacillus (“little staff, wand”), diminutive of baculum (“stick, staff, walking stick”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
bacillus (plural bacilli)
- 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, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Poison Belt[1]:
- "You will conceive a bunch of grapes," said he, "which are covered by some infinitesimal but noxious bacillus.
- 1895, H. G. Wells, The Stolen Bacillus
- Any bacilliform (rod-shaped) bacterium.
- (figuratively, 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.”
- 1934 [2018], Gottfried Haberler quoted in Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, 71:
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
any bacteria in the genus Bacillus
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Anagrams[edit]
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Diminutive of baculus (“staff, walking stick”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
bacillus m (genitive bacillī); second declension
- Alternative form of bacillum
Declension[edit]
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | bacillus | bacillī |
Genitive | bacillī | bacillōrum |
Dative | bacillō | bacillīs |
Accusative | bacillum | bacillōs |
Ablative | bacillō | bacillīs |
Vocative | bacille | bacillī |
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- bacillus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- bacillus in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
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