vacca
Corsican edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Latin vacca, from Proto-Indo-European *woḱéh₂. Cognates include Italian vacca and Spanish vaca.
Noun edit
vacca f (masculine toru, plural vacche)
- cow (female cattle)
Etymology 2 edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun edit
vacca f (plural vacche)
- red-black triplefin (Tripterygion tripteronotus)
- cline (Cristiceps argentatus)
- peacock blenny (Salaria pavo)
References edit
- “vacca” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa
Dalmatian edit
Noun edit
vacca f
- Alternative form of vaca
Interlingua edit
Noun edit
vacca (plural vaccas)
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
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)
- cow
- Synonym: mucca
- (vulgar, slang, figurative, derogatory) whore, slut
Usage notes edit
- Because of the use as a derogatory term the synonym mucca (“milk-cow”) is sometimes preferred, even when not specifically referring to milk production.
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Alemannic German: Wagge
See also edit
Further reading edit
- vacca in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Italic *wokā, from Proto-Indo-European *woḱéh₂.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈu̯ak.ka/, [ˈu̯äkːä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈvak.ka/, [ˈväkːä]
Noun edit
vacca f (genitive vaccae); first declension
- cow (female cattle)
Declension edit
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | vacca | vaccae |
Genitive | vaccae | vaccārum |
Dative | vaccae | vaccīs |
Accusative | vaccam | vaccās |
Ablative | vaccā | vaccīs |
Vocative | vacca | vaccae |
Antonyms edit
Hypernyms edit
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- Corsican: vacca
- Dalmatian: vaca, baka, vacca, baca, bacca
- Eastern Romance:
- Italian: vacca
- → Alemannic German: Wagge
- Northern Italo-Romance:
- Navarro-Aragonese:
- Aragonese: baca
- Old French: vache
- Old Leonese:
- Old Occitan:
- Old Galician-Portuguese: vaca
- Old Spanish:
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- Sardinian: bacca, bàca
- Sicilian: vacca
- Tarantino: vacca
- Venetian: vaca
- → English: vacci-
References edit
- “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
Pali edit
Alternative forms edit
Noun edit
vacca n
Declension edit
Case \ Number | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative (first) | vaccaṃ | vaccāni |
Accusative (second) | vaccaṃ | vaccāni |
Instrumental (third) | vaccena | vaccehi or vaccebhi |
Dative (fourth) | vaccassa or vaccāya or vaccatthaṃ | vaccānaṃ |
Ablative (fifth) | vaccasmā or vaccamhā or vaccā | vaccehi or vaccebhi |
Genitive (sixth) | vaccassa | vaccānaṃ |
Locative (seventh) | vaccasmiṃ or vaccamhi or vacce | vaccesu |
Vocative (calling) | vacca | vaccāni |
References edit
Pali Text Society (1921–1925) “vacca”, in Pali-English Dictionary, London: Chipstead >
Romansch edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
vacca f (plural vaccas)
Sardinian edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
vacca
Synonyms edit
Related terms edit
Sicilian edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
vacca f