bacillum

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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).

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.
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