Where does “bacterium” come from?
Bacterium comes from Latin bacterium, from Ancient Greek βακτήριον, from Ancient Greek βάκτρον meaning rod or staff, from Proto-Indo-European bak-.
bacterium (English): A single celled organism with cell walls but no...
Definitions
- A single celled organism with cell walls but no...
Ancestry of “bacterium”, step by step
Words derived from “bacterium”
- cyanobacteria
- bactericidal
- cyanobacterial
- cyanobacterium
- mycobacterium
- archaebacteria
- bactericide
- bacteriocidal
- archaebacterium
- archaebacterial
- mycobacteriosis
- bacteroid
- agrobacterium
- eubacterium
- rhizobacterium
- peribacteroid
- mycobactericidal
- enterobacterium
- halobacterium
- nitrobacteria
- microbacterium
- bactericidally
- macrobacterium
- nitrobacterium