bacteria

See also: Bacteria, bactéria, and bacterià

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EnglishEdit

scanning electron micrograph of E. coli bacteria

PronunciationEdit

• (US) IPA^(key): /bækˈtɪɹ.i.ə/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /bækˈtɪəɹ.ɪ.ə/

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Etymology 1Edit

From New Latin bacteria, plural of bacterium, from Ancient Greek βακτήριον (baktḗrion), neuter diminutive of βακτηρία (baktēría, “rod, stick”) (cognate with English peg).

NounEdit

bacteria

1. plural of bacterium

NounEdit

bacteria

1. (US) A type, species, or strain of bacterium.
   • 2002, A.C. Panchdhari, Water Supply and Sanitary Installations^[1], 2nd ed. edition, ISBN 8122412254, page 177:

     Anaerobic bacteria function in the absence of oxygen, where as aerobic bacteria require sunlight and also oxygen. Both these bacterias are capable of breaking down the organic matter […]

2. (US, proscribed) Alternative form of bacterium.
3. (pejorative, slang) A derisive term for a lowlife or a slob (could be treated as plural or singular).

Usage notesEdit

• This is the plural form of the word. While it is often used as if it were singular (as a collective noun), this is considered nonstandard by some in the US and more elsewhere. See the usage examples under bacterium.

Derived termsEdit

• Bacteria
• Eubacteria
• Archaebacteria / Archebacteria
• eubacteria
• archaebacteria / archebacteria

TranslationsEdit

see also under bacterium

bacteria

• Albanian: bakter (sq) m
• Amharic: ባክቴሪያ (bakteriya)
• Arabic: بَكْتِيرِيَا‏‎ (ar) f (baktīriyā), جُرْثُومَة‏‎ (ar) f (jurṯūma)
• Armenian: մանրէ (hy) (manrē), բակտերիա (hy) (bakteria)
• Azeri: bakteriya (az)
• Belarusian: бактэ́рыя f (baktéryja)
• Bengali: ব্যাক্টেরিয়া (bjakṭeriya)
• Breton: bakteri
• Bulgarian: бакте́рия (bg) f (baktérija)
• Burmese: ဗက်တီးရီးယား (my) (bakti:ri:ya:)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 細菌, 细菌 (sai³ kwan²)

  Mandarin: 細菌 (zh), 细菌 (zh) (xìjūn)

  Min Nan: 細菌 (zh-min-nan), 细菌 (sè-khún, suè-khún)

• Czech: bakterie (cs)
• Danish: bakterie (da)
• Dutch: bacteriën (nl)
• Erzya: явипанго (javipango)
• Esperanto: bakterioj
• Estonian: bakter (et), bakterid pl
• Finnish: bakteerikanta (collective noun), bakteerit (plural)
• French: bactéries (fr) f pl
• Georgian: ბაქტერია (bakṭeria)
• German: Bakterien (de)
• Greek: βακτήρια (el) n pl (vaktíria)
• Greenlandic: bakteria
• Hebrew: חַיְדַּק‏‎ (he) m (ḥaydáq)
• Hindi: बैक्टीरिया m (baikṭīriyā), जीवाणु (hi) m (jīvāṇu)
• Hungarian: baktérium (hu), baktériumok (hu) pl
• Icelandic: gerlar n pl, bakteríur n pl
• Indonesian: bakteri (id)
• Interlingua: bacterios
• Italian: batteri (it) m pl
• Japanese: 細菌 (ja) (さいきん, saikin), バクテリア (bakuteria)
• Kazakh: бактерия (bakterïya)
• Khmer: វេត្រាណូ (veetraanoo), បាក់តេរី (km) (bakteerii)
• Korean: 세균 (ko) (segyun), 박테리아 (ko) (bakteria)
• Kyrgyz: бактерия (bakteriya)

• Lao: ຈຸລິນທີ (chu lin thī), ຈຸລິນສີ (chu lin sī), ເຊຶ້ອໂຣກ (sưa rōk), ຕົວພະຍາດ (tūa pha nyāt), ແບກທີເລຍ (bǣk thī līa)
• Latvian: baktērija f
• Lithuanian: bakterija f
• Lojban: jurme
• Macedonian: бактерија f (bakterija)
• Malay: bakteria
• Maori: huakita
• Mongolian: нян (mn) (njan), бактери (mn) (bakteri)
• Navajo: chʼosh doo yitʼínii
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bakterie (no) m

• Persian: باکتری‏‎ (fa) (bâkteri)
• Polish: bakterie (pl)
• Portuguese: bactérias
• Romanian: bacterii f pl
• Russian: бакте́рия (ru) f (baktɛ́rija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: бактерија f

  Roman: bakterija (sh) f

• Slovak: baktérie f pl
• Slovene: bakterija (sl) f
• Spanish: bacterias (es)
• Swahili: bakteria
• Swedish: bakterier (sv)
• Tagalog: ishay, bakterya
• Tajik: бактериа (bakteria)
• Tatar: бактерия (baqteriya)
• Thai: แบคทีเรีย (th) (bɛ̀k-tii-riia), บัคเตรี (th) (bàk-dtee-rii), บักเตรี (th) (bàk-dtee-rii), เชื้อ (th) (chʉ́ʉa)
• Tibetan: ཞི་ཅུན (zhi cun)
• Turkish: bakteri (tr)
• Turkmen: bakteriýa (tk)
• Ukrainian: бакте́рія (uk) f (baktérija)
• Urdu: بیکٹیر‏‎ (baikṭīr)
• Uzbek: bakteriya (uz)
• Vietnamese: vi khuẩn (vi), vi trùng
• Volapük: bakters
• Yiddish: באַקטעריע‏‎ f (bakterye)

See alsoEdit

• culture (collective noun)

Etymology 2Edit

From New Latin bacteria, from Ancient Greek βακτηρία (baktēría, “rod, stick”).

NounEdit

bacteria (plural bacteriae)

1. (dated, medicine) An oval bacterium, as distinguished from a spherical coccus or rod-shaped bacillus.

AnagramsEdit

• Arabetic, race-bait

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GalicianEdit

NounEdit

bacteria f (plural bacterias)

1. bacterium

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LatinEdit

NounEdit

bacteria

1. nominative plural of bacterium
2. accusative plural of bacterium
3. vocative plural of bacterium

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SpanishEdit

NounEdit

bacteria f (plural bacterias)

1. bacterium