vache

See also: vačhe and la vache

French

Etymology

From Middle French and Old French vache, from Latin vacca, from Proto-Indo-European *woḱéh₂.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vaʃ/

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Noun

vache f (plural vaches)

1. cow (bovine)

Derived terms

Derived terms

• la vache
• vacher
• vacherie

• vacherin
• vachette

Descendants

• Haitian Creole: vach

See also

• bœuf
• taureau

Adjective

vache (plural vaches)

1. (informal) harsh

   C’est vache! ― That is harsh!

2. (informal, slang) nasty

Further reading

• “vache”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/French/Appendices/Slang#Glossary

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Middle French

Etymology

From Old French vache, from Latin vacca

Noun

vache f (plural vaches)

1. cow (bovine)

Descendants

• French: vache
  • Haitian Creole: vach

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Old French

Etymology

From Latin vacca.

Noun

vache oblique singular, f (oblique plural vaches, nominative singular vache, nominative plural vaches)

1. cow (bovine)

Descendants

• Middle French: vache
  • French: vache
    • Haitian Creole: vach
• Bourguignon: vaiche
• Norman: vaque, vacque (Guernsey); vak (Sark), vacque
• Walloon: vatche

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Venetian

Noun

vache

1. plural of vaca