vacca

• IPA^(key): /ˈvakːa/

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

vacca f (masculine toru, plural vacche)

1. cow (female cattle)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

vacca f (plural vacche)

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

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

vacca f

1. Alternative form of vaca

vacca (plural vaccas)

1. cow

From Latin vacca.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvak.ka/

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• Rhymes: -akka
• Hyphenation: vàc‧ca

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

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

• vaccino

• → Alemannic German: Wagge

• bue
• toro
• vitello

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

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.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯ak.ka/, [ˈu̯äkːä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvak.ka/, [ˈväkːä]

vacca f (genitive vaccae); first declension

1. cow (female cattle)

First-declension noun.

• taurus

• bōs

• vaccifōrmis
• vaccīnus
• vaccula

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: vacã
  • Istro-Romanian: våcĕ
  • Megleno-Romanian: vacă
  • Romanian: vacă
• Dalmatian:
  • vaca, baka, vacca, baca, bacca
• Italo-Romance:
  • Corsican: vacca
  • Italian: vacca
    • → Alemannic German: Wagge
  • Sicilian: vacca
• Padanian:
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Emilian: vaca
    • Ligurian: vacca
    • Lombard: àca, vaca, vacja
    • Piedmontese: vaca
    • Romagnol: vàca
  • Friulian: vacje, vačhe (alternative orthography)
  • Ladin: vacia
  • Romansch: vatga, vacca, vacha
  • Venetan: vaca
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: vaca
  • Franco-Provençal: vache
  • Old French: vache (see there for further descendants)
  • Occitan: vaca
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: baca
  • Asturian: vaca
  • Extremaduran: vaca
  • Mirandese: baca
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: vaca
    • Galician: vaca
    • Portuguese: vaca (see there for further descendants)
  • Old Spanish: vaca
    • Ladino: vaka
    • Spanish: vaca (see there for further descendants)
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: bacca, bàca
• Borrowings:
  • → 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 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

vacca n

1. excrement

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

vacca f (plural vaccas)

1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of vaca.
   • 1938, Graciliano Ramos, “Inverno [Winter]”, in Vidas Seccas [Barren Lives]‎^[1], Rio de Janeiro: Livraria José Olympio Editora, pages 101-102:

     As gotteiras pingavam, os chocalhos das vaccas tiniam, os sapos cantavam.

     The leaks dripped, the cows’ bells jingled, and the frogs croaked.

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

From Latin vacca.

vacca f (plural vaccas)

1. (Sursilvan) cow

• bacca

From Latin vacca.

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

vacca

1. cow

• bàca

• vacchinu

From Latin vacca.

vacca f

1. cow