Etymology
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Borrowed from French antibiotique.
Pronunciation
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- (UK) IPA(key): /ˌæn.ti.baɪˈɒt.ɪk/, /ˌæn.taɪ.baɪˈɒt.ɪk/
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- (US) IPA(key): /ˌæn.taɪ.baɪˈɑ.tɪk/, /ˌæn.tə.baɪˈɑ.tɪk/, /ˌæn.ti.baɪˈɑ.tɪk/
- Rhymes: -ɒtɪk
antibiotic (plural antibiotics)
- (pharmacology) Any substance that can destroy or inhibit the growth of bacteria and similar microorganisms, generally transported by the lymphatic system.
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Translations
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substance that destroys or inhibits bacteria
- Albanian: antibiotik (sq) m
- Arabic: مُضَادّ حَيَوِيّ m (muḍādd ḥayawiyy)
- Armenian: հակաբիոտիկ (hy) (hakabiotik)
- Azerbaijani: antibiotik
- Belarusian: антыбіётык m (antybijótyk)
- Bulgarian: антибио́тик m (antibiótik)
- Burmese: ပဋိဇီဝဆေး (my) (pa.ti.jiwa.hce:)
- Catalan: antibiòtic (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 抗生素 (zh) (kàngshēngsù), 抗菌素 (zh) (kàngjūnsù)
- Czech: antibiotikum (cs) n
- Danish: antibiotikum (da) n
- Dutch: antibioticum (nl) n
- Esperanto: antibiotiko
- Estonian: antibiootikum
- Finnish: antibiootti (fi)
- French: antibiotique (fr) m
- Georgian: ანტიბიოტიკი (ka) (anṭibioṭiḳi)
- German: Antibiotikum (de) n
- Greek: αντιβιοτικό (el) m (antiviotikó)
- Hebrew: אַנְטִיבְּיוֹטִיקָה (he) f (antibyótika)
- Hindi: प्रतिजैविक (pratijaivik)
- Hungarian: antibiotikum (hu), baktericid (hu)
- Icelandic: sýklalyf n
- Ido: antibiotiko (io)
- Indonesian: antibiotik (id)
- Interlingua: antibiotico
- Irish: antaibheathach m, frithbheathach m
- Italian: antibiotico (it) m
- Japanese: 抗生物質 (ja) (こうせいぶっしつ, kōseibusshitsu)
- Kazakh: антибиотик (antibiotik)
- Korean: 항생물질 (hangsaengmuljil), 항생제 (hangsaengje)
- Kyrgyz: антибиотик (antibiotik)
- Latvian: antibiotika f
- Lithuanian: antibiotikas m
- Macedonian: антибио́тик m (antibiótik)
- Malay: antibiotik (ms)
- Maori: rongoā paturopi, paturopi, patupokenga
- Marathi: प्रतिजैविक n (pratijaivik)
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: антибиотик (mn) (antibiotik), нян дарагч (njan daragč) (China)
- Mongolian: ᠠᠨᠲ᠋ᠢᠪᠢᠣᠲ᠋ᠢᠺ (antibiotik), ᠨᠢᠶᠠᠨ
ᠳᠠᠷᠤᠭᠴᠢ (niyan daruɣči)
- Norwegian: antibiotikum n
- Persian: آنتیبیوتیک (ânti-biyotik)
- Polish: antybiotyk (pl) m
- Portuguese: antibiótico (pt)
- Romanian: antibiotic (ro) n
- Russian: антибио́тик (ru) m (antibiótik)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: антибио̀тик m
- Roman: antibiòtik (sh) m
- Sinhalese: ප්රතිජීවක (si) (pratijīwaka)
- Slovak: antibiotikum (sk) n
- Slovene: antibiotik (sl) m
- Spanish: antibiótico (es) m
- Swahili: antibiotiki
- Swedish: antibiotikum (sv) n
- Tagalog: labanhayanin, antibiyotiko
- Tajik: антибиотик (antibiotik)
- Thai: ยาปฏิชีวนะ (yaa-bpà-dtì-chii-wá-ná), ปฏิชีวนะ (bpà-dtì-chii-wá-ná)
- Tibetan: སྐྱེ་ནུས་འགོག་རྫས (skye nus 'gog rdzas)
- Turkish: antibiyotik (tr)
- Turkmen: antibiotik
- Ukrainian: антибіо́тик m (antybiótyk)
- Uzbek: antibiotik (uz)
- Vietnamese: kháng sinh (vi), trụ sinh
- Welsh: gwrthfiotig m
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Adjective
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antibiotic (comparative more antibiotic, superlative most antibiotic)
- (pharmacology) Of or relating to antibiotics.
- (obsolete) Of or relating to the theory that extraterrestrial life does not exist.
Translations
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of or relating to antibiotics
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