vacca
Dalmatian
Noun
vacca f
- Alternative form of vaca
Ingrian
Noun
vacca
Interlingua
Noun
vacca (plural vaccas)
Italian
Etymology
From Latin vacca, from Proto-Indo-European *wokeha-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈvak.ka/, [ˈväkːä]
Audio (“una vacca”) (file) - Rhymes: -akka
- Hyphenation: vàc‧ca
Noun
vacca f (plural vacche)
- cow
- Synonym: mucca
- (slang, figuratively, derogatory) whore, slut
Usage notes
Because of the use as derogatory term the synonym mucca (“milk-cow”) is sometimes preferred, even when not specifically referring to milk production.
Related terms
See also
Latin
vacca (a cow)
Etymology
From the Proto-Indo-European *woḱéh₂.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈwak.ka/
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈvak.ka/
Audio (Classical) (file)
Noun
vacca f (genitive vaccae); first declension
- cow (female cattle)
Declension
First declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | vacca | vaccae |
| genitive | vaccae | vaccārum |
| dative | vaccae | vaccīs |
| accusative | vaccam | vaccās |
| ablative | vaccā | vaccīs |
| vocative | vacca | vaccae |
Antonyms
Hypernyms
Derived terms
Descendants
- Aragonese: baca
- Aromanian: vacã
- Asturian: vaca
- Catalan: vaca
- Dalmatian: baca
- English: vacci-
- French: vache
- Friulian: vacje
- Galician: vaca
- Interlingua: vacca
- Istro-Romanian: våcĕ
- Italian: vacca
- Ladin: vacia
- Ligurian: vàcca
- Navajo: béégashii
- Norman: vaque
- Occitan: vaca
- Portuguese: vaca
- Romanian: vacă
- Romansch: vatga
- Sardinian: bacca
- Sicilian: vacca
- Spanish: vaca
- Venetian: vaca
- Walloon: vatche
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)
- 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
Romansch
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Latin vacca, from Proto-Indo-European *wokeha-.
Noun
vacca f (plural vaccas)
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