See also: vacă, vacã, vàca, and vācā

EnglishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

a clipping of vacation (informal, US)

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

vaca (plural vacas)

  1. vacation.

SynonymsEdit

AnagramsEdit

AragoneseEdit

 
Aragonese Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia an

EtymologyEdit

From Latin vacca.

NounEdit

vaca f

  1. cow

AsturianEdit

 
Asturian Wikipedia has an article on:
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EtymologyEdit

From Latin vacca

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

vaca f (plural vaques)

  1. cow

CatalanEdit

 
Catalan Wikipedia has an article on:
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EtymologyEdit

From Latin vacca

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

vaca f (plural vaques)

  1. cow
  2. torpedo (ray of the genus Torpedo)
    Synonyms: tremolosa, torpede
  3. painted comber (fish of species Serranus scriba)
    Synonyms: serrana, vaca serrana

Further readingEdit

DalmatianEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin vacca (cow). Compare Italian vacca, Spanish vaca.

NounEdit

vaca f

  1. cow

GalicianEdit

 
Vacas
 
Galician Wikipedia has an article on:
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EtymologyEdit

From Old Galician-Portuguese vaca, from Latin vacca.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): [ˈbakɐ], (in sandhi) [ˈβakɐ]

NounEdit

vaca f (plural vacas)

  1. cow
  2. (fishing) trawler

Derived termsEdit

See alsoEdit

ReferencesEdit

  • vaca” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
  • vaca” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • vaca” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • vaca” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • vaca” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • vaca” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

ItalianEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈva.ka/
  • Rhymes: -aka
  • Syllabification: và‧ca

VerbEdit

vaca

  1. inflection of vacare:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

AnagramsEdit

LatgalianEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): [ˈvat͡sa]
  • Hyphenation: va‧ca

AdjectiveEdit

vaca

  1. inflection of vacs:
    1. indefinite genitive singular masculine
    2. indefinite nominative singular feminine

LatinEdit

VerbEdit

vacā

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of vacō

Old Galician-PortugueseEdit

EtymologyEdit

Inherited from Latin vacca.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

vaca f (plural vacas)

  1. cow

DescendantsEdit

  • Galician: vaca
  • Portuguese: vaca (see there for further descendants)

Further readingEdit

PaliEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

Inherited from Sanskrit वच (vaca).

NounEdit

vaca m or n

  1. word, saying

DeclensionEdit

ReferencesEdit

  • Pali Text Society (1921-1925), “vaca”, in Pali-English Dictionary‎, London: Chipstead

PiedmonteseEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin vacca

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

vaca f (plural vache)

  1. cow

PortugueseEdit

 
vaca

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese vaca, from Latin vacca.

NounEdit

vaca f (plural vacas)

  1. cow
  2. (derogatory, slang) a promiscuous woman; bitch
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vadia
DescendantsEdit

See alsoEdit

Etymology 2Edit

VerbEdit

vaca

  1. inflection of vacar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

ReferencesEdit

RomanianEdit

NounEdit

vaca f

  1. definite nominative/accusative singular of vacă

SpanishEdit

 
vaca

EtymologyEdit

From Latin vacca

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

vaca f (plural vacas)

  1. cow (adult female of the species Bos taurus)
  2. beef
    Synonyms: vacuno, res
  3. leather
    Synonym: cuero de vaca
  4. (derogatory, informal) cow (woman considered unpleasant, particularly one considered fat)
  5. (Chile) collection
    Synonym: recaudación

Derived termsEdit

DescendantsEdit

AdjectiveEdit

vaca f

  1. feminine singular of vaco

VerbEdit

vaca

  1. inflection of vacar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

See alsoEdit

Further readingEdit

AnagramsEdit

VenetianEdit

 
Venetian Wikipedia has an article on:
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EtymologyEdit

From Latin vacca

NounEdit

vaca f (plural vache)

  1. cow