antibiotic

See also: antibiòtic

English

Etymology

From French antibiotique, coined in 1889 by Jean Paul Vuillemin from anti- and biotique, from Ancient Greek βιωτικός (biōtikós, “concerning or relating to life”) (from βίος (bíos, “life”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷeih₃w- (“to live”)), perhaps influenced by ἀντίβιος (antíbios, “opposed”).

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˌæn.ti.baɪˈɒt.ɪk/, /ˌæn.taɪ.baɪˈɒt.ɪk/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˌæn.taɪ.baɪˈɑ.tɪk/, /ˌæn.tə.baɪˈɑ.tɪk/
Rhymes: -ɒtɪk

Noun

antibiotic (plural antibiotics)

(pharmacology) Any substance that can destroy or inhibit the growth of bacteria and similar microorganisms.

Hyponyms

See also Thesaurus:antibiotic

Derived terms

antibioticked
antibioticogram

Translations

substance that destroys or inhibits bacteria

Albanian: antibiotik (sq) m
Arabic: مُضَادّ حَيَوِيّ‎ m (muḍādd ḥayawiyy)
Armenian: հակաբիոտիկ (hy) (hakabiotik)
Azerbaijani: antibiotik
Belarusian: антыбіётык m (antybijótyk)
Bulgarian: антибио́тик m (antibiótik)
Burmese: ပဋိဇီဝဆေးများ (pa.ti.jiwa.hce:mya:)
Catalan: antibiòtic (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 抗生素 (zh) (kàngshēngsù), 抗菌素 (zh) (kàngjūnsù)
Czech: antibiotikum (cs) n
Danish: antiobiotikum n
Dutch: antibioticum (nl) n
Esperanto: antibiotiko
Estonian: antibiootikum
Finnish: antibiootti (fi)
French: antibiotique (fr) m
Georgian: ანტიბიოტიკი (ka) (anṭibioṭiḳi)
German: Antibiotikum (de) n
Greek: αντιβιοτικό (el) m (antiviotikó)
Hebrew: אַנְטִיבְּיוֹטִיקָה‎ (he) f (antibyótika)
Hindi: प्रतिजैविक (pratijaivik)
Hungarian: antibiotikum (hu)
Ido: antibiotiko (io)
Interlingua: antibiotico
Irish: antaibheathach m, frithbheathach m
Italian: antibiotico (it) m
Japanese: 抗生物質 (こうせいぶっしつ, kōseibusshitsu)
Kazakh: антибиотик (antïbïotïk)
Korean: 항생물질 (hangsaengmuljil), 항생제 (hangsaengje)

Kyrgyz: антибиотик (antibiotik)
Latvian: antibiotika f
Lithuanian: antibiotikas m
Macedonian: антибио́тик m (antibiótik)
Malay: antibiotik
Maori: rongoā paturopi, paturopi, patupokenga
Mongolian: антибиотик (mn) (antibiotik)
Norwegian: antibiotikum n
Persian: آنتی‌بیوتیک‎ (ânti-biotik)
Portuguese: antibiótico (pt)
Romanian: antibiotic (ro) n
Russian: антибио́тик (ru) m (antibiótik)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: антибио̀тик m

Roman: antibiòtik (sh) m
Sinhalese: ප්‍රතිජීවක (p‍ratijīvaka)
Slovak: antibiotikum (sk) n
Slovene: antibiotik (sl) m
Spanish: antibiótico (es) m
Swedish: antibiotikum (sv) n
Tagalog: labanhayanin, antibiyotiko
Tajik: антибиотик (antibiotik)
Thai: ยาปฏิชีวนะ (yaa-bpà-dtì-chii-wá-ná), ปฏิชีวนะ (bpà-dtì-chii-wá-ná)
Tibetan: སྐྱེ་ནུས་འགོག་རྫས (skye nus 'gog rdzas)
Turkish: antibiyotik (tr)
Turkmen: antibiotik
Ukrainian: антибіо́тик m (antybiótyk)
Uzbek: antibiotik (uz)
Vietnamese: kháng sinh (vi), trụ sinh
Welsh: gwrthfiotig m

Adjective

antibiotic (comparative more antibiotic, superlative most antibiotic)

(pharmacology) Of or relating to antibiotics.
(obsolete) Of or relating to the theory that extraterrestrial life does not exist.

Translations

of or relating to antibiotics

Catalan: antibiòtic (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 抗生素的 (kàngshēngsù de), 抗菌素的 (kàngjūnsù de)
Czech: antibiotický m
Danish: antibiotisk
Esperanto: antibiotika
Finnish: antibioottinen
French: antibiotique (fr)
Georgian: ანტიბიოტიკური (anṭibioṭiḳuri)
German: antibiotisch (de)

Interlingua: antibiotic
Irish: antaibheathach, frithbheathach
Italian: antibiotico (it) m
Macedonian: антибио́тски (antibiótski)
Norwegian: antibiotisk
Portuguese: antibiótico (pt)
Russian: антибиоти́ческий (ru) (antibiotíčeskij)
Slovak: antibiotický (sk)
Spanish: antibiótico (es)
Tagalog: labanhanayin

See also

Interlingua

Adjective

antibiotic (not comparable)

antibiotic

Related terms

antibiotico

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