Latin

Alternative forms

• bacillus

Noun

bacillum n ‎(genitive bacillī); second declension

1. A small staff or wand.
2. The shaft or handle of a tool or weapon.

Inflection

Second declension.

Descendants

• Serbo-Croatian: bàcīl/ба̀цӣл

References

• bacillum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• bacillum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• BACILLUM in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “bacillum”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.