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/
• Rhymes: -akka
• Hyphenation: vàc‧ca

• Audio:

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Noun

vacca f (plural vacche)

1. cow

   Synonym: mucca

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

Usage notes

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

Derived terms

• stravaccarsi
• vaccaio
• vaccaro
• vaccherella
• vaccheria
• vacchetta
• vacchino

 

Related terms

• vaccino

Descendants

• → Alemannic German: Wagge

See also

• bue
• toro
• vitello

Further reading

• vacca in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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Latin

vacca (a cow)

Etymology

From the Proto-Indo-European *woḱéh₂.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯ak.ka/, [ˈu̯äkːä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvak.ka/, [ˈväkːä]

• Audio (Classical):

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Noun

vacca f (genitive vaccae); first declension

1. cow (female cattle)

Declension

First-declension noun.

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:
  • Aragonese: baca
• Old French: vache
  • Middle French: vache
    • French: vache
      • Haitian Creole: vach
  • Bourguignon: vaiche
  • Lorrain: vaitche
  • Norman: vacke
  • Picard: vake
  • Walloon: vatche
• Old Leonese:
  • Asturian: vaca
  • Extremaduran: vaca
  • Mirandese: baca
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: vaca
  • Occitan: vaca
• Old Galician-Portuguese: vaca
  • Galician: vaca
  • Portuguese: vaca
    • Kabuverdianu: báka
    • Papiamentu: baka
    • → Kadiwéu: waaca
• Old Spanish:
  • Ladino: vaka
  • Spanish: vaca (see there for further descendants)
• Piedmontese: vaca
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: vacje, vačhe (alternative orthography)
  • 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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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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Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative forms

• 𑀯𑀘𑁆𑀘 (Brahmi script)
• वच्च (Devanagari script)
• ৰচ্চ (Bengali script)
• වච‍්ච (Sinhalese script)
• ဝစ္စ or ဝၸ္ၸ or ဝၸ်ၸ (Burmese script)
• วจฺจ or วัจจะ (Thai script)
• ᩅᨧ᩠ᨧ (Tai Tham script)
• ວຈ຺ຈ or ວັຈຈະ (Lao script)
• វច្ច (Khmer script)
• 𑅇𑄌𑄴𑄌 (Chakma script)

Noun

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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