vacca

See also: Vacca and vàcca

Corsican

Una vacca (1.1)

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)

1. cow (female cattle)

Etymology 2

Una vacca (2.1)

Una vacca (2.3)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

vacca f (plural vacche)

1. red-black triplefin (Tripterygion tripteronotus)
2. cline (Cristiceps argentatus)
3. peacock blenny (Salaria pavo)

References

• “vacca” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

Dalmatian

Noun

vacca f

1. Alternative form of vaca

Interlingua

Noun

vacca (plural vaccas)

1. cow

Italian

Etymology

From Latin vacca.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvak.ka/

• Audio:

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• 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)

1. cow

   Synonym: mucca

2. (vulgar, 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

vacca (a cow)

Etymology

Possibly from a Proto-Italic *wokā, from Proto-Indo-European *woḱéh₂, with a diminutive/hypocoristic or expressive suffix -ca. May be borrowed from another Indo-European language, but no obvious European cognate is known.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

vacca f (genitive vaccae); first declension

1. cow (female cattle)

Declension

First-declension noun.

	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

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: vacã
  • Istro-Romanian: våcĕ
  • Megleno-Romanian: vacă
  • Romanian: vacă
• Dalmatian:
  • vaca, baka, vacca, baca, bacca
• Italo-Romance:
  • Corsican: vacca
  • Italian: vacca
    • → Alemannic German: Wagge
  • Sicilian: vacca
• Padanian:
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Emilian: vaca
    • Ligurian: vacca
    • Lombard: àca, vaca, vacja
    • Piedmontese: vaca
    • Romagnol: vàca
  • Friulian: vacje, vačhe (alternative orthography)
  • Ladin: vacia
  • Romansch: vatga, vacca, vacha
  • Venetan: vaca
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: vaca
  • Franco-Provençal: vache
  • Old French: vache (see there for further descendants)
  • Occitan: vaca
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: baca
  • Asturian: vaca
  • Extremaduran: vaca
  • Mirandese: baca
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: vaca
    • Galician: vaca
    • Portuguese: vaca (see there for further descendants)
  • Old Spanish: vaca
    • Ladino: vaka
    • Spanish: vaca (see there for further descendants)
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: bacca, bàca
• Borrowings:
  • → 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

Alternative scripts

• 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

1. excrement

Declension

Declension table of "vacca" (neuter)

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

• vatga (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran)
• vacha (Puter, Vallader)

Etymology

From Latin vacca.

Noun

vacca f (plural vaccas)

1. (Sursilvan) cow

Sardinian

Alternative forms

• bacca

Etymology

From Latin vacca.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbakka/, /ˈvakka/ (in certain Nuorese towns)

Noun

vacca

1. cow

Synonyms

• bàca

Related terms

• vacchinu

Sicilian

Etymology

From Latin vacca.

Noun

vacca f

1. cow