Antibiotic: Understanding the Compound Word & Its Meaning
Antibiotic is a compound word from Greek:
- anti– (ἀντί) = “against”
- bios (βίος) = “life”
Literal meaning: “against life.” The term was coined (as antibiotique) by Jean Paul Vuillemin in 1889 and popularized by Selman Waksman in the 1940s to describe microbial products that inhibit other microorganisms.
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