bacillum

Latin

Alternative forms

• bacillus

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /baˈkil.lum/, [bäˈkɪlːʲʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /baˈt͡ʃil.lum/, [bäˈt͡ʃilːum]

Noun

bacillum n (genitive bacillī); second declension

1. A small staff or wand.
2. The shaft or handle of a tool or weapon.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	bacillum	bacilla
Genitive	bacillī	bacillōrum
Dative	bacillō	bacillīs
Accusative	bacillum	bacilla
Ablative	bacillō	bacillīs
Vocative	bacillum	bacilla

Descendants

• → Serbo-Croatian: bàcīl/ба̀цӣл
• See also: imbecillus

References

• “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.