Bacter

Morpheme

Bacter

Type

bound base

Denotation

stick, rod, staff, club

Etymology

Modern Latin bactērium; Ancient Greek baktērion, from baktēría + -ion

Evidence

abacterial, acidobacterial, actinobacterial, agrobacterial, alphaproteobacterial, antibacterial, archaebacteria, archaebacterial, arcobacterial, arthrobacterial, azotobacterial, bacteria, bacterial, bacterialization, bacterially, bactericidal, bacterid, bacteriemia, bacterin, bacterium, bacteroid, betaproteobacterial, bifibacterial, bifidobacterial, brevibacterial, campylobacterial, coccobacterial, corynebacterial, curvibacterial, cyanobacterial, cyanobacterium, deltaproteobacterial, endobacterial, enterobacterial, epibacteria, epibacterial, epibacterium, eubacteria, eubacterial, extrabacterial, flavobacterial, fusobacterial, gammaproteobacterial, halobacterial, heliobacterial, interbacterial, intrabacterial, janthinobacterial, magnetobacterial, megabacterial, microbacterial, monobacterial, multibacterial, mycobacterial, myobacterial, myxobacterial, nanobacterial, nitrobacterial, nonbacterial, panbacterial, paucibacterial, peribacterial, photobacterial, phytobacterial, polybacterial, poribacterial, probacterium, propionibacterial, proteobacterial, protobacterial, rhizobacterial, roseobacterial, sphingobacterial, subbacterial, ultramicrobacterial, zetaproteobacterial

Notes

<r> does not double because the stress falls on the first syllable

See Also

Bacteri, Bacterio