vaccine

See also vacciné

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Latin vaccinus, from vacca (“cow”) (because of early use of the cowpox virus against smallpox). Cf. New or Scientific Latin (variola) vaccīna, or "cowpox".

Pronunciation

• IPA: /væ.ksɪːn/

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Noun

vaccine (plural vaccines)

1. (immunology) A substance given to stimulate the body's production of antibodies and provide immunity against a disease, prepared from the agent that causes the disease, or a synthetic substitute.

Related terms

• immunization
• inoculation
• vaccinate
• vaccination

Translations

substance that stimulates production of antibodies

• Arabic: لقاح (ar) (laqqāḥ) m
• Asturian: vacuna (ast) f
• Azeri: vaksin (az)
• Belarusian: вакцына (be) (vakcýna) f
• Bengali: ভ্যাক্সিন (bn) (bhyaksin), টীকা (bn) (ţika)
• Bulgarian: ваксина (bg) (vaksína) f
• Catalan: vacuna (ca) f, vaccí (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 疫苗 (cmn) (yìmiáo)

• Czech: očkovací látka (cs) f, vakcína (cs) f
• Dutch: vaccin (nl) n
• Esperanto: vakcino (eo)
• Estonian: vaktsiin (et)
• Finnish: rokote (fi)
• French: vaccin (fr) m
• Galician: vacina (gl) f
• German: Impfstoff (de) m, Vakzine (de) f
• Greek: εμβόλιο (el) (emvólio) n
• Hindi: टीका (hi) (ṭīkā)
• Hungarian: vakcina (hu)
• Italian: vaccino (it) m
• Japanese: ワクチン (ja) (wakuchin), 疫苗 (ja) (とうびょう, tōbyō)

• Kazakh: вакцина (kk) (vakcina)
• Korean: 백신 (ko) (baeksin)
• Lithuanian: vakcina (lt) f
• Macedonian: вакцина (mk) (vakcina) f
• Persian: واکسن (fa) (vâksin)
• Polish: szczepionka (pl) f, wakcyna (pl) f
• Portuguese: vacina (pt) f
• Romanian: vaccin (ro)
• Russian: вакцина (ru) (vakcína) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: вакцина (sh) f, цепиво (sh), цјепиво (sh)

  Latin: vakcina (sh), cepivo (sh), cjepivo (sh)

• Slovak: vakcína (sk) f
• Slovene: cepivo (sl) n
• Spanish: vacuna (es) f
• Swahili: chanjo (sw)
• Swedish: vaccin (sv) n
• Thai: วัคซีน (th) (wák seen)
• Turkish: aşı (tr)
• Ukrainian: вакцина (uk) (vakcýna) f
• Vietnamese: vacxin (vi)
• Yakut: быһыы (bıhıı), вакцина (vaktsina)

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Verb

vaccine

1. first-person singular present indicative of vacciner
2. third-person singular present indicative of vacciner
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of vacciner
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of vacciner
5. second-person singular imperative of vacciner

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Italian

Adjective

vaccine f

1. Feminine plural form of vaccino

Anagrams

• vinacce