bacillusとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

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

発音

• IPA^(key): /bæˈsɪl.əs/

名詞

bacillus (複数形 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) bacteria.
3. (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.”

派生語

• Actinobacillus
• bacilliferous
• Döderlein's bacillus
• Eberth's bacillus

Latin

語源

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

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /baˈkil.lus/, [baˈkɪl.lʊs]

名詞

bacillus m (genitive bacillī); second declension

1. Alternative form of bacillum

語形変化

Second declension.

派生した語

• French: bacille
• Galician: bacelo
• Russian: баци́лла f (bacílla)

参照

• 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^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016