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Latin
Etymology
Diminutive of baculum (“staff, walking stick”).
Pronunciation
Noun
bacillum n (genitive bacillī); second declension
- A small staff or wand.
- The shaft or handle of a tool or weapon.
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Descendants
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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- bacillum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.