"bacterium" meaning in Latin

See bacterium in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: [bakˈteː.ri.ũː] [Classical-Latin], [bakˈtɛː.ri.um] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek βᾰκτηρῐ́ᾱ (băktērĭ́ā) Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Ancient Greek -ῐος (-ĭos)? Ancient Greek -ῐον (-ĭon) Ancient Greek βακτήριον (baktḗrion)bor. Latin bactērium From Ancient Greek βακτήριον (baktḗrion, “small staff”), from βακτηρία (baktēría). Etymology templates: {{etymon|la|:bor|grc:βακτήριον|title=bactērium|tree=1}} Etymology tree Ancient Greek βᾰκτηρῐ́ᾱ (băktērĭ́ā) Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Ancient Greek -ῐος (-ĭos)? Ancient Greek -ῐον (-ĭon) Ancient Greek βακτήριον (baktḗrion)bor. Latin bactērium [Appendix:Glossary#loanword|Borrowed]] from", "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ ], "lang_name" : "Ancient Greek", "term" : "βᾰκτηρῐ́ᾱ", "status" : "missing", "lang" : "grc" }, { "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "is_uncertain" : true, "id" : "adjective suffix", "children" : [ { "keyword_abbrev" : "der.", "keyword_label" : "Derived from", "terms" : [ { "children" : [ ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*-yós", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword" : "derived" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Ancient Greek", "term" : "-ῐος", "lang" : "grc" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "keyword" : "from" } ], "lang_name" : "Ancient Greek", "term" : "-ῐον", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "grc" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "lang_name" : "Ancient Greek", "term" : "βακτήριον", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "grc" } ], "keyword" : "bor" } ], "lang_name" : "Latin", "term" : "bactērium", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "la" }" data-lang="la" data-title="bactērium">, {{bor|la|grc|βακτήριον||small staff}} Ancient Greek βακτήριον (baktḗrion, “small staff”) Head templates: {{la-noun|bactērium<2.-ium>}} bactērium n (genitive bactēriī); second declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|bactērium<2.-ium>}} Forms: bactērium [canonical, neuter], bactēriī [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], bactērium [nominative, singular], bactēria [nominative, plural], bactēriī [genitive, singular], bactēriōrum [genitive, plural], bactēriō [dative, singular], bactēriīs [dative, plural], bactērium [accusative, singular], bactēria [accusative, plural], bactēriō [ablative, singular], bactēriīs [ablative, plural], bactērium [singular, vocative], bactēria [plural, vocative], bactērius [alternative]
  1. (Late Latin, Medieval Latin) cane, walking-stick; staff (of a shepherd) Tags: Late-Latin, Medieval-Latin, declension-2
    Sense id: en-bacterium-la-noun-xFNvAHm9 Categories (other): Late Latin, Medieval Latin, Latin entries with etymology trees, Latin entries with incorrect language header, Latin neuter nouns in the second declension Disambiguation of Latin entries with etymology trees: 71 29 Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 65 35 Disambiguation of Latin neuter nouns in the second declension: 50 50
  2. (New Latin, microbiology) bacterium Tags: New-Latin, declension-2
    Sense id: en-bacterium-la-noun--ufQfIVH Categories (other): New Latin, Microbiology, Latin neuter nouns in the second declension Disambiguation of Latin neuter nouns in the second declension: 50 50 Topics: biology, microbiology, natural-sciences
     
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Latin dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-05-27 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-05-01 using wiktextract (4997730 and 9380997). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.