different between bacillus vs bacilliform

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bæ?s?l.?s/

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) bacterium.
3. (figuratively, 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

Anagrams

• subcalli

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ba?kil.lus/, [bä?k?l???s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ba?t??il.lus/, [b??t??il?us]

Noun

bacillus m (genitive bacill?); second declension

1. Alternative form of bacillum

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Descendants

• French: bacille
• Galician: bacelo
• Russian: ???????? 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?^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

English

Adjective

bacilliform (comparative more bacilliform, superlative most bacilliform)

1. Shaped like a bacillus; rod-shaped

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