different between bacterium vs hib
bacterium
English
Etymology
From New Latin bact?rium, from Ancient Greek ????????? (bakt?rion, “small staff”), from ???????? (bakt?ría).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bæk?t???.??m/
Noun
bacterium (plural bacteria)
- (microbiology) A single celled organism with cell walls but no nucleus or organelles.
Usage notes
- In most formal writing, bacterium is the singular form of the noun, and bacteria the plural form. This is in accord with the word's Latin etymology. However, in ordinary speech, some speakers use bacteria as a singular, with plural either bacteria or bacterias. This is usually considered nonstandard.
Hypernyms
- prokaryote
Hyponyms
- See also Thesaurus:bacterium
Derived terms
- eubacterium
- archaebacterium / archebacterium
- urobacterium
- bacterial
Translations
Further reading
- bacterium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
See also
- bacillus
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ????????? (bakt?rion, “small staff”), from ???????? (bakt?ría).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /bak?te?.ri.um/, [bäk?t?e??i???]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /bak?te.ri.um/, [b?k?t????ium]
Noun
bact?rium n (genitive bact?ri? or bact?r?); second declension
- (microbiology) bacterium
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
References
- bacterium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
bacterium From the web:
- what bacteria causes strep throat
- what bacteria is associated with food poisoning
- what bacteria causes uti
- what bacteria causes pneumonia
- what bacteria causes tuberculosis
- what bacteria causes syphilis
- what bacteria causes lyme disease
- what bacteria causes food poisoning
hib
Slovene
Noun
hib
- genitive dual/plural of hiba
hib From the web:
- what hibachi
- what hibernates
- what hibiscus
- what hibachi means
- what hibiscus good for
- what hibernation means
- what hibernates in the winter
- what hib vaccine
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