vacca

vacca f

1. Alternative form of vaca

vacca

1. belly

vacca (plural vaccas)

1. cow

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

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

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vacca f (plural vacche)

1. cow

   Synonym: mucca

2. (slang, figuratively, derogatory) whore, slut

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

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

• → Alemannic German: Wagge

• bue
• toro
• vitello

From the Proto-Indo-European *woḱéh₂.

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

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vacca f (genitive vaccae); first declension

1. cow (female cattle)

First declension.

• taurus

• bōs

• vaccifōrmis
• vaccīnus
• vaccula

• Corsican: vacca
• Dalmatian: vaca, baka, vacca, baca, bacca
• Eastern Romance:
  • Aromanian: vacã
  • Istro-Romanian: våcĕ
  • Romanian: vacă
• Emilian: vaca
• Italian: vacca
  • → Alemannic German: Wagge
• Ligurian: vacca
• Lombard: àca, vaca, vacja
• Navarro-Aragonese: [Term?]
  • Aragonese: baca
• Old French: vache
  • Middle French: vache
    • French: vache
      • Haitian Creole: vach
  • Bourguignon: vaiche
  • Norman: vaque, vacque, vacque
  • Walloon: vatche
• Old Leonese: [Term?]
  • Asturian: vaca
  • Extremaduran: vaca
  • Mirandese: baca
• Old Occitan: [Term?]
  • Catalan: vaca
  • Occitan: vaca
• Old Portuguese: vaca
  • Galician: vaca
  • Portuguese: vaca
    • Kabuverdianu: báka
    • Papiamentu: baka
    • → Kadiwéu: waaca
• Old Spanish: [Term?]
  • Ladino: vaka
  • Spanish: vaca (see there for further descendants)
• Piedmontese: vaca
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: vacje, vačhe
  • Ladin: vacia
  • Romansch: vatga, vacca, vacha
• Sardinian: bacca, bàca
• Sicilian: vacca
• Tarantino: vacca
• Venetian: vaca
• → English: vacci-

• 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)
• 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

vacca ?

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

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

vacca f (plural vaccas)

1. (Sursilvan) cow