bacillus

== English == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin bacillus (“little staff, wand”), diminutive of baculum (“stick, staff, walking stick”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /bæˈsɪl.əs/ === Noun === bacillus (plural bacilli) Any of various rod-shaped, spore-forming aerobic bacteria in the genus Bacillus, some of which cause disease. 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 ==== ==== Translations ==== === Anagrams === subcalli == Latin == === Etymology === Diminutive of baculus (“staff, walking stick”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [baˈkɪl.lʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [baˈt͡ʃil.lus] === Noun === bacillus m (genitive bacillī); second declension alternative form of bacillum ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== French: bacille Galician: bacelo Russian: баци́лла f (bacílla) → Translingual: Bacillus (learned) === References === “bacillus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. bacillus in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016