vacca

See also: Vacca

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

Synonyms

• mucca

Related terms

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

See also

• bue
• toro
• vitello

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Latin

vacca (a cow)

Etymology

From the Proto-Indo-European *wokeh₂-.

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

• Aragonese: baca
• Aromanian: vacã
• Asturian: vaca
• Catalan: vaca
• Dalmatian: baca
• English: vacci-
• French: vache
• Friulian: vacje
• Galician: vaca
• Interlingua: vacca
• Istro-Romanian: våcĕ
• Italian: vacca
• Ladin: vacia
• Navajo: béégashii
• Norman: vaque
• Occitan: vaca
• Portuguese: vaca
• Romanian: vacă
• Romansch: vatga
• Sardinian: bacca
• Sicilian: vacca
• Spanish: vaca
  • Cebuano: baka
  • Mapuche: waka
  • Quechua: waka
• Venetian: vaca
• Walloon: vatche

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
• du Cange, Charles (1883), “vacca”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre
• “vacca” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
• 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