bacillum
Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Diminutive of baculum (“staff, walking stick”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /baˈkil.lum/, [bäˈkɪlːʲʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /baˈt͡ʃil.lum/, [bäˈt͡ʃilːum]
Noun
[edit]bacillum n (genitive bacillī); second declension
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun (neuter).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | bacillum | bacilla |
| genitive | bacillī | bacillōrum |
| dative | bacillō | bacillīs |
| accusative | bacillum | bacilla |
| ablative | bacillō | bacillīs |
| vocative | bacillum | bacilla |
Descendants
[edit]- → Serbo-Croatian: bàcīl/ба̀цӣл
- See also: imbecillus
References
[edit]- “bacillum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “bacillum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "bacillum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- bacillum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.