bacterium

Etymology
From, from , from.

Noun

 * 1)  A single-celled organism with cell walls but no nucleus or organelles.

Usage notes

 * In most formal writing, is the singular form of the noun, and  the plural form. This is in accord with the word's Latin etymology. However, in ordinary speech, some speakers use  as a singular, with plural either  or . This is usually considered nonstandard.

Hyponyms

 * See also Thesaurus:bacterium

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Belarusian: бактэ́рыя
 * Bengali: ব্যাক্টেরিয়া
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 細菌
 * Hokkien:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: bakterio
 * Estonian:
 * Farefare: bakterium
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ბაქტერია
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, , बैक्टीरिया
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Interlingua:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kazakh: бактерия
 * Khmer:
 * Korean: ,
 * Kyrgyz: бактерия
 * Lao:
 * Latin: bactērium
 * Latvian: baktērija
 * Lithuanian: bakterija
 * Macedonian: бактерија
 * Malay: ,
 * Maori: huakita
 * Marathi: जीवाणू
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: ,
 * Mongolian: ᠨᠢᠶᠠᠨ, ᠪᠠᠻᠲ᠋ᠧᠷᠢ
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: bakterie
 * Occitan: ,
 * Pashto: باکتري, باکتېريا
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit: जीवाणु
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ба̀кте̄рија
 * Roman:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: ishay, bakterya
 * Tajik:
 * Tatar: бактерия
 * Thai:, ,
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: بیکٹیریا, جَرْثُومَہ
 * Uyghur: باكتېرىيە
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: (微菌),  (微蟲)
 * Volapük: bakter
 * Yoruba: bakitéríà


 * Amharic:
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Assamese:, জীৱাণু
 * Breton:
 * Erzya:
 * Greenlandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Khmer:
 * Lao:, ຈຸລິນສີ, ເຊຶ້ອໂຣກ, ຕົວພະຍາດ, ແບກທີເລຍ
 * Navajo:
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan:
 * Urdu:
 * Yiddish:

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1)  cane, walking-stick; staff (of a shepherd)
 * 2)  bacterium