vacca

See also: Vacca and vàcca

Dalmatian

Noun

vacca f

1. Alternative form of vaca

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Ingrian

Noun

vacca

1. belly

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Interlingua

Noun

vacca (plural vaccas)

1. cow

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin vacca, from Proto-Indo-European *wokeha-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvak.ka/, [ˈväkːä]

• Audio (“una vacca”)

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• Rhymes: -akka
• Hyphenation: vàc‧ca

Noun

vacca f (plural vacche)

1. cow

   Synonym: mucca

2. (slang, figuratively, derogatory) whore, slut

Usage notes

Because of the use as derogatory term the synonym mucca (“milk-cow”) is sometimes preferred, even when not specifically referring to milk production.

Related terms

• vaccaio
• vaccaro
• vaccherella
• vaccheria
• vacchetta
• vaccino
• vacchino

Descendants

• → Alemannic German: Wagge

See also

• bue
• toro
• vitello

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Latin

vacca (a cow)

Etymology

From the Proto-Indo-European *woḱéh₂.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈwak.ka/
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvak.ka/

• Audio (Classical)

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Noun

vacca f (genitive vaccae); first declension

1. cow (female cattle)

Declension

First declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	vacca	vaccae
Genitive	vaccae	vaccārum
Dative	vaccae	vaccīs
Accusative	vaccam	vaccās
Ablative	vaccā	vaccīs
Vocative	vacca	vaccae

Antonyms

• taurus

Hypernyms

• bōs

Derived terms

• vaccifōrmis
• vaccīnus
• vaccula

Descendants

• Corsican: vacca
• Dalmatian: vaca, baka, vacca, baca, bacca
• Eastern Romance:
  • Aromanian: vacã
  • Istro-Romanian: våcĕ
  • Romanian: vacă
• Emilian: vaca
• Italian: vacca
  • → Alemannic German: Wagge
• Ligurian: vacca
• Lombard: àca, vaca, vacja
• Navarro-Aragonese: [Term?]
  • Aragonese: baca
• Old French: vache
  • Middle French: vache
    • French: vache
      • Haitian Creole: vach
  • Norman: vaque, vak, vacque
  • Walloon: vatche
• Old Leonese: [Term?]
  • Asturian: vaca
  • Extremaduran: vaca
  • Mirandese: baca
• Old Occitan: [Term?]
  • Catalan: vaca
  • Occitan: vaca
• Old Portuguese: vaca
  • Galician: vaca
  • Portuguese: vaca
    • Kabuverdianu: báka
    • Papiamentu: baka
    • → Kadiwéu: waaca
• Old Spanish: [Term?]
  • Ladino: vaka
  • Spanish: vaca (see there for further descendants)
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: vacje, vačhe
  • Ladin: vacia
  • Romansch: vatga, vacca, vacha
• Sardinian: bacca, bàca
• Sicilian: vacca
• Tarantino: vacca
• Venetian: vaca
• → English: vacci-

References

• vacca in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vacca in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vacca in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• vacca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• vacca in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vacca in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

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Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) vatga
• (Puter, Vallader) vacha

Etymology

From Latin vacca, from Proto-Indo-European *wokeha-.

Noun

vacca f (plural vaccas)

1. (Sursilvan) cow