Words that come from Latin bacillum

51 words across 14 languages descend from Latin bacillum — including bacilli, imbecile, bacillus, imbecilic, lactobacillus, bacillar, microbacillus, thiobacillus.

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English (14)

Translingual (9)

French (8)

Latin (5)

Spanish (3)

Dutch (2)

Italian (2)

Serbo-Croatian (2)

Middle French (1)

Indonesian (1)

Russian (1)

Galician (1)

Portuguese (1)

Catalan (1)