Words that come from Latin “baculum”

101 words across 33 languages descend from Latin baculum — including bacilli, imbecile, bacillus, baguette, imbecilic, lactobacillus, baculum, bacillar.

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English (20)

Italian (13)

Translingual (9)

French (9)

Latin (6)

Spanish (5)

Dutch (4)

Ligurian (3)

Vulgar Latin (3)

Old Irish (2)

Irish (2)

Russian (2)

Serbo-Croatian (2)

Portuguese (2)

Middle French (1)

Indonesian (1)

Middle Dutch (1)

Old Dutch (1)

Faroese (1)

Icelandic (1)

Czech (1)

Hebrew (1)

Greek (1)

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Old Norse (1)

Scottish Gaelic (1)

Norman (1)

German (1)

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Tagalog (1)

Old French (1)