bacil

Borrowed from Latin bacillum.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [bəˈsil]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [baˈsil]

bacil m (plural bacils)

1. bacillus (rod-shaped bacteria)

• “bacil”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “bacil”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “bacil” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “bacil” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• IPA^(key): [ˈbat͡sɪl]

bacil m anim or m inan

1. bacillus

when animate:

when inanimate:

• “bacil”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “bacil”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “bacil”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

bacil

1. masculine singular past active participle of bacit

Probably borrowed from French bacille, from German Bazillus or translingual Bacillus, coined by Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg.

• IPA^(key): /baːˈsɪl/

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• Hyphenation: ba‧cil
• Rhymes: -ɪl

bacil m (plural bacillen, diminutive bacilletje n)

1. bacillus, bacterium of the genus Bacillus

Borrowed from French bacille.

bacil m (plural bacili)

1. bacillus

Borrowed from Latin bacillum.

• IPA^(key): /bǎt͡siːl/
• Hyphenation: ba‧cil

bàcīl m anim (Cyrillic spelling ба̀цӣл)

1. bacillus

• “bacil”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025