vaccine

See also: vacciné

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin vaccīnus, from vacca (“cow”) (because of early use of the cowpox virus against smallpox). Compare New Latin variola vaccīna, "cowpox".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vækˈsiːn/, /ˈvæk.siːn/, /ˈvæk.sɪn/, /vækˈsaɪn/

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Noun

vaccine (countable and uncountable, plural vaccines)

1. (immunology) A substance given to stimulate the body's production of antibodies and provide immunity against a disease without causing the disease itself in the treatment, prepared from the agent that causes the disease, or a synthetic substitute.

Related terms

• immunization
• inoculation
• vaccinate
• vaccination

Translations

substance meant to stimulate production of antibodies

• Albanian: vaksinë (sq) f
• Arabic: لَقَّاح m (laqqāḥ)
• Armenian: պատվաստանյութ (hy) (patvastanyutʻ), վակցինա (hy) (vakcʻina)
• Assamese: ছিটা (sita), টিকা (tika)
• Asturian: vacuna f
• Azerbaijani: vaksin
• Belarusian: вакцы́на f (vakcýna)
• Bengali: ভ্যাক্সিন (bhêkśin), টীকা (ṭika)
• Bulgarian: вакси́на f (vaksína)
• Burmese: ကာကွယ်ဆေး (my) (ka-kwaihce:)
• Catalan: vacuna (ca) f, vaccí (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 疫苗 (zh) (yìmiáo)

• Czech: očkovací látka f, vakcína (cs) f
• Danish: vaccine (da) c
• Dutch: vaccin (nl) n
• Esperanto: vakcino (eo)
• Estonian: vaktsiin
• Finnish: rokote (fi)
• French: vaccin (fr) m
• Galician: vacina f
• Georgian: ვაქცინა (vakcina)
• German: Impfstoff (de) m, Vakzine (de) f
• Greek: εμβόλιο (el) n (emvólio)
• Gujarati: રસી (rasī)
• Hebrew: חִסּוּן / חיסון (he)
• Hindi: टीका (hi) f (ṭīkā), वैक्सीन (vaiksīn)
• Hungarian: vakcina (hu)
• Icelandic: bóluefni
• Irish: vacsaín f
• Italian: vaccino (it) m
• Japanese: ワクチン (ja) (wakuchin), 痘苗 (とうびょう, tōbyō)
• Kazakh: вакцина (vaksina)
• Khmer: វ៉ាក់សាំង (km) (vaksang)
• Korean: 백신 (ko) (baeksin)
• Kurdish:
• Kyrgyz: вакцина (vaktsina)
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• Lao: ວັກຊີນ (wak sīn)
• Latvian: vakcīna f
• Lithuanian: vakcina f
• Macedonian: вакцина f (vakcina)
• Malay: vaksin, benih cacar, pelali, tampang cacar
• Maori: rongoā āraimate
• Mongolian: вакцин (mn) (vakcin)
• Norman: vaccîn m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: vaksine m

  Nynorsk: vaksine m

• Persian: واکسن (fa) (vâksin)
• Polish: szczepionka (pl) f, wakcyna f
• Portuguese: vacina (pt) f
• Romanian: vaccin (ro) n
• Russian: вакци́на (ru) f (vakcína)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: вакци́на f, це̏пӣво n, цје̏пӣво n

  Latin: vakcína (sh) f, cȅpīvo (sh) n, cjȅpīvo (sh) n

• Slovak: vakcína (sk) f
• Slovene: cepivo (sl) n
• Spanish: vacuna (es) f
• Swahili: chanjo (sw)
• Swedish: vaccin (sv) n
• Tagalog: bakuna
• Tajik: ваксина (vaksina)
• Thai: วัคซีน (th) (wák-siin)
• Turkish: aşı (tr)
• Turkmen: waksina
• Ukrainian: вакци́на (uk) f (vakcýna)
• Urdu: ویکسین (vaiksīn)
• Uyghur: ۋاكسىنا (waksina)
• Uzbek: vaktsina, vaksina (uz)
• Vietnamese: chủng ngừa, vắc-xin
• Yakut: быһыы (bıhıı), вакцина (vaktsina)
• Yiddish: וואַקצין (vaktsin)

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Danish

Noun

vaccine c (singular definite vaccinen, plural indefinite vacciner)

1. vaccine

Declension

Declension of vaccine

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	vaccine	vaccinen	vacciner	vaccinerne
genitive	vaccines	vaccinens	vacciners	vaccinernes

Related terms

• vaccinere

References

• “vaccine” in Den Danske Ordbog

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French

Verb

vaccine

1. inflection of vacciner:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

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Italian

Adjective

vaccine f pl

1. feminine plural of vaccino

Anagrams

• vinacce