different between phage vs bacterium

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek -????? (-phágos, “eater”), from ???- (phag-), aorist stem of ????? (esthí?), ??? (éd?, “to eat, to consume”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fe?d?/
• Rhymes: -e?d?

Noun

phage (plural phages or phage)

1. (microbiology, virology) A virus that is parasitic on bacteria.
   • "The plural word phages refers to different types of phage, whereas in common usage the word phage can be both singular and plural, referring in the plural sense to particles of the same type of phage." Maloy et al: Microbial Genetics, 2nd ed., 1984, ?ISBN, p. 81

Synonyms

• bacteriophage

See also

• virophage

References

• phage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• phage therapy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Pegah

French

Noun

phage m (plural phages)

1. Synonym of bactériophage

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)

1. (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

1. (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)