English
enterobacteriologist
From entero- + bacteriologist.
A compound of entero- + bacterio- + -ist + -logist + bacteriologist
Ancient Greek βακτηρία ‘rod, staff, cane’
Ancient Greek βακτήριον ‘diminutive of βακτηρία (baktēría)’
New Latin bactērium
English bacterio-
Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- ‘to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to speak by carefully selecting one's words’
Proto-Indo-European *lóǵos
Proto-Hellenic *lógos
Ancient Greek λόγος ‘that which is said: word, sentence, speech, story, debate, utterance, argument’
English bacteriologist
Today it means
noun An expert on enterobacteria.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / enterobacteriologist