bacteriologist

English

Etymology

From bacterio- +‎ -logist.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bækˌtɪəɹiˈɒlədʒɪst/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

bacteriologist (plural bacteriologists)

1. A microbiologist whose speciality is bacteriology.
   • 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.'

Derived terms

• cyanobacteriologist
• enterobacteriologist
• mycobacteriologist
• phytobacteriologist

 

Related terms

• bacteria
• bacteriology

Translations

microbiologist

• Armenian: մանրէաբան (hy) (manrēaban)
• Bulgarian: бактериоло́г m (bakteriológ)
• Catalan: bacteriòleg m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 細菌學家／细菌学家 (xìjùnxuéjiā)

• Czech: bakteriolog m
• Danish: bakteriolog c
• Dutch: bacterioloog (nl) m, bacteriologe (nl) f
• Finnish: bakteriologi (fi)
• French: bactériologiste (fr) m or f
• German: Bakteriologe (de) m, Bakteriologin (de) f
• Hungarian: bakteriológus (hu)
• Irish: baictéareolaí m
• Japanese: 細菌学者 (ja) (さいきんがくしゃ, saikingakusha)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bakteriolog m

  Nynorsk: bakteriolog (nn) m

• Polish: bakteriolog (pl) m or f
• Portuguese: bacteriologista (pt) m or f
• Russian: бактерио́лог (ru) m (bakteriólog)
• Slovak: bakteriológ (sk) m, bakteriologička (sk) f
• Spanish: bacteriólogo m or f