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bacteria
English
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /bæk?t??.i.?/
- (UK) IPA(key): /bæk?t???.?.?/
- Rhymes: -??i?
- Rhymes: -???i?
Etymology 1
From New Latin bacteria, plural of bacterium, from Ancient Greek ????????? (bakt?rion), neuter diminutive of ???????? (bakt?ría, “rod, stick”) (cognate with English peg).
Noun
bacteria
- plural of bacterium
bacteria (plural bacterias)
- (US) A type, species, or strain of bacterium.
- (US, proscribed) Alternative form of bacterium.
- (derogatory, slang) A derisive term for a lowlife or a slob (could be treated as plural or singular).
Usage notes
- This is the plural form of the word. While it is often used as if it were singular (as a collective noun), this is considered nonstandard by some in the US and more elsewhere. See the usage examples under bacterium.
Derived terms
- Bacteria
- Eubacteria
- Archaebacteria / Archebacteria
- eubacteria
- archaebacteria / archebacteria
Translations
see also under bacterium
See also
- culture (collective noun)
Etymology 2
From New Latin bacteria, from Ancient Greek ???????? (bakt?ría, “rod, stick”).
Noun
bacteria (plural bacteriae)
- (dated, medicine) An oval bacterium, as distinguished from a spherical coccus or rod-shaped bacillus.
Anagrams
- Arabetic, race-bait
Galician
Noun
bacteria f (plural bacterias)
- bacterium
Latin
Noun
bact?ria
- nominative plural of bact?rium
- accusative plural of bact?rium
- vocative plural of bact?rium
Spanish
Etymology
From New Latin bacteria, plural of bact?rium, from Ancient Greek ????????? (bakt?rion).
Noun
bacteria f (plural bacterias)
- bacterium
Derived terms
- antibacteria
- bacterial
- bacteriano
Further reading
- “bacteria” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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paramecium
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ????????? (param?k?s, “oval”), from ????? (mêkos, “length”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?pæ.???mi?.si.?m/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?p?.???mi.si.?m/
- Hyphenation: par?a?me?ci?um
Noun
paramecium (plural paramecia or parameciums)
- An oval-shaped protozoan organism of the genus Paramecium.
Synonyms
- slipper animalcule
Translations
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /pa.ra?me.ki.um/, [pä?ä?m?ki???]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /pa.ra?me.t??i.um/, [p????m??t??ium]
Noun
paramecium n (genitive parameci? or paramec?); second declension
- paramecium
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
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- what paramecium use for movement
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