Interlingua

Noun

vacca ‎(plural vaccas)

1. cow

Italian

Etymology

From Latin vacca, from Proto-Indo-European *wokeha-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvak.ka/, [ˈväkːä]
• Rhymes: -akka
• Hyphenation: vàc‧ca

Noun

vacca f ‎(plural vacche)

1. cow
2. (slang, figuratively, derogatory) whore, ****

Synonyms

• mucca

Related terms

• vaccaio
• vaccaro
• vaccherella
• vaccheria
• vacchetta
• vaccino
• vacchino

See also

• bue
• toro
• vitello

Latin

vacca (a cow)

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *wokeh₂-.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈwak.ka/
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvak.ka/

Noun

vacca f ‎(genitive vaccae); first declension

1. cow (female cattle)

Inflection

First declension.

Antonyms

• taurus

Hypernyms

• bōs

Related terms

• vaccīnus
• vaccula

Descendants

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, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “vacca”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: 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

Romansch

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

From Latin vacca, from Proto-Indo-European *wokeha-.

Noun

vacca f (plural vaccas)

1. (Sursilvan) cow