English
histobacteriological
From histo- + bacteriological.
A compound of histo- + bacterio- + -ical + -logical + bacteriological
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 bacteriological
Today it means
adj histological and bacteriological
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / histobacteriological