bacillus

See also: Bacillus and Bacilli

English

bacilli

Wikispecies

Etymology

From Latin bacillus (“little staff, wand”), diminutive of baculum "stick, staff, walking stick.”

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bæˈsɪl.əs/

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.'

2. Any bacilliform (rod-shaped) bacteria.
3. (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
• bacilliferous
• Döderlein's bacillus
• Eberth's bacillus

Translations

any bacteria in the genus Bacillus

• Albanian: bacil (sq)
• Arabic: عَصَوِيَّة‎ f (ʿaṣawiyya)
• Armenian: ցուպիկ (hy) (cʿupik), բացիլ (hy) (bacʿil)
• 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 (zh), 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
• Interlingue: bacille
• Italian: bacillo (it)
• Japanese: 桿菌 (かんきん, kankin), バシラス (bashirasu), バチルス (bachirusu)

• Khmer: ទណ្ឌាណូ (toandienoo)
• Korean: 간균 (gan-gyun) (桿菌)
• 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

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Latin

Etymology

Diminutive of baculus (“staff, walking stick”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /baˈkil.lus/, [baˈkɪl.lʲʊs]

Noun

bacillus m (genitive bacillī); second declension

1. Alternative form of bacillum

Declension

Second-declension noun.

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: баци́лла f (bacílla)

References

• 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^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016