bacillus

See also: Bacillus and Bacilli

English

bacilli

Wikispecies

Etymology

From Latin bacillus (“little staff, wand”).

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.

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:)
• 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)
• Hindi: बैसिलस (baisilas), दण्डाणु m (daṇḍāṇu)
• Hungarian: bacilus (hu)
• Icelandic: staflaga baktería f, baktería (is) f
• 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
• 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

Derived terms

• Actinobacillus
• Döderlein's bacillus
• Eberth's bacillus

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Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

bacillus m (genitive bacillī); second declension

1. Alternative form of bacillum

Inflection

Second declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	bacillus	bacillī
genitive	bacillī	bacillōrum
dative	bacillō	bacillīs
accusative	bacillum	bacillōs
ablative	bacillō	bacillīs
vocative	bacille	bacillī

Descendants

• French: bacille
• Russian: баци́лла f (bacílla)

References

• “bacillus” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
• bacillus in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016