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vacca

See also: Vacca, and vàcca

Corsican

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Una vacca (1.1)

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Etymology 1

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From Latin vacca, from Proto-Indo-European *woḱéh₂. Cognates include Italian vacca and Spanish vaca.

Noun

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vacca f (masculine toru, plural vacche)

  1. cow (female cattle)

Etymology 2

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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

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vacca f (plural vacche)

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

References

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

Dalmatian

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Noun

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vacca f

  1. Alternative form of vaca

Interlingua

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Noun

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vacca (plural vaccas)

  1. cow

Italian

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Etymology

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From Latin vacca.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈvak.ka/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -akka
  • Hyphenation: vàc‧ca

Noun

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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

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

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Descendants

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  • → Alemannic German: Wagge

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Further reading

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

Latin

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vacca (a cow)

Etymology

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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.

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Noun

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vacca f (genitive vaccae); first declension

  1. cow (female cattle)

Declension

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First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative vacca vaccae
genitive vaccae vaccārum
dative vaccae vaccīs
accusative vaccam vaccās
ablative vaccā vaccīs
vocative vacca vaccae

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Descendants

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References

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  • “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

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vacca n

  1. excrement

Declension

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Declension table of "vacca" (neuter)
Case \ NumberSingularPlural
Nominative (first)vaccaṃvaccāni
Accusative (second)vaccaṃvaccāni
Instrumental (third)vaccenavaccehi or vaccebhi
Dative (fourth)vaccassa or vaccāya or vaccatthaṃvaccānaṃ
Ablative (fifth)vaccasmā or vaccamhā or vaccāvaccehi or vaccebhi
Genitive (sixth)vaccassavaccānaṃ
Locative (seventh)vaccasmiṃ or vaccamhi or vaccevaccesu
Vocative (calling)vaccavaccāni

References

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Pali Text Society (1921–1925) “vacca”, in Pali-English Dictionary‎, London: Chipstead >

Romansch

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Etymology

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From Latin vacca.

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vacca f (plural vaccas)

  1. (Sursilvan) cow

Sardinian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Latin vacca.

Pronunciation

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

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vacca

  1. cow

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Sicilian

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Etymology

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From Latin vacca.

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vacca f

  1. cow
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