different between bacillus vs fungus

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

Borrowed from Latin fungus (“mushroom”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?f??.??s/
• Rhymes: -????s

Noun

fungus (countable and uncountable, plural fungi or funguses)

1. (mycology) Any member of the kingdom Fungi; a eukaryotic organism typically having chitin cell walls but no chlorophyll or plastids. Fungi may be unicellular or multicellular.
2. (now rare, pathology) A spongy, abnormal excrescence, such as excessive granulation tissue formed in a wound.

Hyponyms

• (organism): ascomycete, basidiomycete, mold, mushroom, toadstool, yeast

Derived terms

Related terms

• fungous

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fungus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f??.??s/, /?f??.??s/
• Hyphenation: fun?gus

Noun

fungus m (plural fungi)

1. (mycology) fungus, member of the kingdom Fungi

Related terms

• fungicidaal
• fungicide
• spons

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??.?ys/

Noun

fungus m (plural fungus)

1. Alternative spelling of fongus

Latin

Etymology

Originally sfungus. Likely a loanword from a non-Indo-European substrate language. Compare Ancient Greek ??????? (spóngos) (whence Latin spongia) and Old Armenian ?????? (sunkn).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?fun.?us/, [?f????s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?fun.?us/, [?fu??us]

Noun

fungus m (genitive fung?); second declension

1. a mushroom; a fungus
2. a fungal growth or infection
3. a candle-snuff
4. (figuratively) dolt, idiot

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Derived terms

• fung?nus
• fung?sus
• fungulus

Related terms

• fungidus

Descendants

References

• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)?^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, ?ISBN
• fungus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fungus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fungus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• fungus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.