aerogenes

āēr + -genēs, from Ancient Greek ἀήρ (aḗr, “air”) + γεννάω (gennáō, “to produce”)

āerogenēs (neuter āerogenes or āerogenēs); third-declension one-termination adjective (Greek-type)

1. (New Latin) gas-producing

• Used exclusively as a taxonomic epithet and thus normally in the nominative singular; other inflections may be theoretical or rarely found.

Third-declension one-termination adjective (Greek-type).

¹It is unknown whether Classical Latin preserved (or would have preserved) the shortness of the original Greek short ending.
²It is unknown whether adjectives of this type would use i-stem or consonant-stem endings in Classical Latin: the relevant forms are not attested. Depending on the word, either ending or both may be attested in New Latin.

• Enterobacter aerogenes
• Haloplanus aerogenes
• Klebsiella aerogenes
• Pasteurella aerogenes
• Staphylococcus aerogenes
• Streptococcus aerogenes