vaccine

From Latin vaccīnus, from vacca (“cow”) (because of early use of the cowpox virus against smallpox). Compare New Latin variola vaccīna, "cowpox".

• IPA^(key): /vækˈsiːn/, /ˈvæk.siːn/, /ˈvæk.sɪn/, /vækˈsaɪn/

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vaccine (countable and uncountable, plural vaccines)

1. (immunology) A substance given to stimulate the body's production of antibodies and provide immunity against a disease without causing the disease itself in the treatment, prepared from the agent that causes the disease, or a synthetic substitute.

• immunization
• inoculation
• vaccinate
• vaccination

vaccine c (singular definite vaccinen, plural indefinite vacciner)

1. vaccine

• vaccinere

• “vaccine” in Den Danske Ordbog

vaccine

1. inflection of vacciner:
   1. first-person and third-person singular present indicative and subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

vaccine f pl

1. feminine plural of vaccino

• vinacce