bacillus
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin bacillus (“little staff, wand”), diminutive of baculum (“stick, staff, walking stick”).
Pronunciation
Noun
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.'
- 1895, H. G. Wells, The Stolen Bacillus
- Any bacilliform (rod-shaped) bacteria.
- (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
Translations
any bacteria in the genus Bacillus
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Latin
Etymology
Diminutive of baculus (“staff, walking stick”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /baˈkil.lus/, [bäˈkɪlːʲʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /baˈt͡ʃil.lus/, [bäˈt͡ʃilːus]
Noun
bacillus m (genitive bacillī); second declension
- Alternative form of bacillum
Declension
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 |
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