different between bacillus vs diphtheroid

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

Etymology

diphtheria +? -oid

Adjective

diphtheroid (not comparable)

1. Of, pertaining to or resembling diphtheria.
2. Of, pertaining to or resembling the diphtheria bacillus Corynebacterium diphtheriae.

Noun

diphtheroid (plural diphtheroids)

1. Any bacterium that can cause diphtheria