vacca
Corsican
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈvakːa/
Etymology 1
From Latin vacca, from Proto-Indo-European *woḱéh₂. Cognates include Italian vacca and Spanish vaca.
Noun
vacca f (masculine toru, plural vacche)
- cow (female cattle)
Etymology 2
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
vacca f (plural vacche)
- red-black triplefin (Tripterygion tripteronotus)
- cline (Cristiceps argentatus)
- peacock blenny (Salaria pavo)
References
- “vacca” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa
Dalmatian
Noun
vacca f
- Alternative form of vaca
Interlingua
Noun
vacca (plural vaccas)
- cow
Italian
Etymology
From Latin vacca.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈvak.ka/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -akka
- Hyphenation: vàc‧ca
Noun
vacca f (plural vacche, diminutive vaccarèlla or vaccherèlla or vacchétta or (rare) vacchìna or (rare) vacchicìna, augmentative (also with figurative derogatory meaning) vaccóna f or vaccóne m, pejorative vaccàccia (uncommon, often used figuratively as an insult), derogatory (rare) vaccùccia)
- cow
- Synonym: mucca
- (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
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *wokā, from Proto-Indo-European *woḱéh₂.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈu̯ak.ka/, [ˈu̯äkːä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈvak.ka/, [ˈväkːä]
Audio (Classical) (file)
Noun
vacca f (genitive vaccae); first declension
- 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
- Italian: vacca
- → Alemannic German: Wagge
- Northern Italo-Romance:
- Emilian: vaca
- Ligurian: vacca
- Lombard: àca, vaca, vacja
- Piedmontese: vaca
- Romagnol: vàca
- Navarro-Aragonese:
- Aragonese: baca
- Old French: vache
- Middle French: vache
- French: vache
- Haitian Creole: vach
- French: vache
- Bourguignon: vaiche
- Lorrain: vaitche
- Norman: vaque
- Picard: vake
- Walloon: vatche
- Middle French: vache
- Old Leonese:
- Asturian: vaca
- Extremaduran: vaca
- Mirandese: baca
- Old Occitan:
- Catalan: vaca
- Occitan: vaca
- Old Portuguese: vaca
- Galician: vaca
- Portuguese: vaca
- Kabuverdianu: báka
- Papiamentu: baka
- → Kadiwéu: waaca
- Old Spanish:
- 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 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
Pali
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
vacca n
- excrement
Declension
Case \\ Number | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative (first) | vaccaṃ | vaccāni |
Accusative (second) | vaccaṃ | vaccāni |
Instrumental (third) | vaccena | vaccehi or vaccebhi |
Dative (fourth) | vaccassa or vaccāya or vaccatthaṃ | vaccānaṃ |
Ablative (fifth) | vaccasmā or vaccamhā or vaccā | vaccehi or vaccebhi |
Genitive (sixth) | vaccassa | vaccānaṃ |
Locative (seventh) | vaccasmiṃ or vaccamhi or vacce | vaccesu |
Vocative (calling) | vacca | vaccāni |
References
Pali Text Society (1921-1925), “vacca”, in Pali-English Dictionary, London: Chipstead >
Romansch
Alternative forms
- (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) vatga
- (Puter, Vallader) vacha
Etymology
From Latin vacca.
Noun
vacca f (plural vaccas)
- (Sursilvan) cow
Sardinian
Alternative forms
- bacca
Etymology
From Latin vacca.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbakka/, /ˈvakka/ (in certain Nuorese towns)
Noun
vacca
- cow
Synonyms
- bàca
Related terms
- vacchinu
Sicilian
Etymology
From Latin vacca.
Noun
vacca f
- cow