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/
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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.'
- 1913, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Poison Belt‎:
  "You will conceive a bunch of grapes," said he, "which are covered by some infinitesimal but noxious bacillus.
Any bacilliform (rod-shaped) bacterium.
(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
bacilliferous
comma bacillus
Döderlein's bacillus
Eberth's bacillus
Klebs-Löffler bacillus
Koch'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／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 (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) IPA^(key): /baˈkil.lus/, [bäˈkɪlːʲʊs̠]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /baˈt͡ʃil.lus/, [bäˈt͡ʃilːus]

Noun

bacillus m (genitive bacillī); second declension

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, pre-publication website, 2005-2016