vaccination

English

Etymology

From vaccinia, a cowpox infection. Ultimately from Latin vacca (“cow”). Coined by Edward Jenner (1749-1823) in 1798. Jenner infected people with weakened cowpox viruses (Vaccinia), to immunise them against smallpox. It is now known that vaccinia and cow pox are separate conditions, but at the time of Jenner, they were considered the same condition.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən
• IPA^(key): /ˌvæk.sɪˈneɪ.ʃən/, /ˌvæk.sɪˈneɪ.ʃn̩/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: vac‧ci‧na‧tion

Noun

vaccination (countable and uncountable, plural vaccinations)

1. Inoculation with a vaccine, in order to protect from a particular disease or strain of disease.

   Near-synonym: immunization (broadly synonymous)

   • 2014 June 14, “It's a gas”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8891:

     One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.

   • 2021 December 2, “Unvaccinated private boat owners a risk to Aotea's community - iwi”, in Radio NZ‎^[1]:

     It's^[sic] spokesperson Leonie Howie did not want to be interviewed but said they "will do the mahi" when it comes to trying to both encourage vaccinations as well as managing any health risks to the community when visitors arrive.

Coordinate terms

• (Idiomatically often coordinate despite that hypernymy might be expected)
  • PEP (post-exposure prophylaxis)
  • PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis)

Derived terms

• antivaccination
• anti-vaccination
• hypervaccination
• mass vaccination centre
• provaccination
• pro-vaccination
• vaccination mark

 

Related terms

• vaccinator
• vax

Translations

inoculation with a vaccine

• Afrikaans: inenting (af), vaksinering (af)
• Albanian: vaksinim (sq) m
• Arabic: تَطْعِيم (ar) m (taṭʕīm), تَلْقِيح m (talqīḥ)
• Armenian: պատվաստում (hy) (patvastum)
• Basque: txertaketa
• Belarusian: вакцына́цыя f (vakcynácyja), прышчэ́пліванне n (pryščéplivannje), прышчэ́пка f (pryščépka)
• Bulgarian: ваксина́ция f (vaksinácija)
• Catalan: vacunació (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 疫苗接種／疫苗接种 (yìmiáo jiēzhòng), 預防接種／预防接种 (yùfáng jiēzhòng)

• Czech: očkování (cs) n, vakcinace (cs) f
• Danish: vaccination c
• Dutch: vaccinatie (nl) f, inenting (nl) f
• Esperanto: vakcino (eo)
• Estonian: vaktsineerimine
• Faroese: koppseting f
• Finnish: rokotus (fi)
• French: vaccination (fr) f
• Galician: vacinación (gl) f
• Georgian: აცრა (acra), ვაქცინირება (vakcinireba)
• German: Impfung (de) f, Schutzimpfung (de) f, Impfen n, Schutzimpfen n, Vakzination (de) f, Vakzinierung f
• Greek: εμβολιασμός (el) m (emvoliasmós)
• Hausa: lambā̀ (ha) f
• Hebrew: חיסון \ חִסּוּן (he) m (khisún)
• Hindi: टीका (hi) m (ṭīkā), टीकाकरण m (ṭīkākraṇ)
• Hungarian: oltás (hu), védőoltás (hu)
• Icelandic: bólusetning (is) f
• Indonesian: vaksinasi (id), imunisasi (id)
• Irish: vacsaíniú m
• Italian: vaccinazione (it) f
• Japanese: 予防接種 (ja) (よぼうせっしゅ, yobō sesshu), ワクチン接種 (ワクチンせっしゅ, wakuchin sesshu), 接種 (ja) (せっしゅ, sesshu)
• Kazakh: вакцинация (vaksinasiä), вакциналау (vaksinalau)
• Korean: 예방접종(預防接種) (ko) (yebangjeopjong), 접종(接種) (jeopjong)
• Latvian: vakcinācija f
• Lithuanian: vakcinacija f
• Macedonian: вакцинација f (vakcinacija)
• Malay: pemvaksinan, vaksinasi, tanam cacar (archaic)
• Maltese: tilqim m, vvaċċinar m
• Navajo: achʼąąʼ adáʼatsʼiʼ
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: vaksinasjon m, vaksinering m or f

  Nynorsk: vaksinasjon m, vaksinering f

• Oromo: talaallii
• Persian: مایه‌کوبی (mâye-kubi), مایه کوبی (fa) (mâye kubi), واکسیناسیون (fa) (vâksinâsiyon)
• Plautdietsch: Impfunk f
• Polish: szczepienie (pl) n
• Portuguese: vacinação (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਟੀਕਾ m (ṭīkā), ਟੀਕਾਕਰਨ m (ṭīkākran)
• Romanian: vaccinare (ro) f
• Russian: вакцина́ция (ru) f (vakcinácija), приви́вка (ru) f (privívka)
• Sami:

  Lule Sami: gabnnjadálkudibme

• Samoan: fa'agata
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: цијепљење n

  Roman: cijepljenje n

• Slovak: očkovanie n, vakcinácia f
• Slovene: cepljenje n
• Spanish: vacunación (es) f
• Swahili: chanjo (sw)
• Swedish: vaccination (sv) c, vaccinering (sv) c
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Tongan: huhu taʻofi
• Turkish: aşılama (tr)
• Ukrainian: вакцина́ція (uk) f (vakcynácija), ще́плення n (ščéplennja)
• Urdu: ٹِیکَہ m (ṭīkah), ٹِیکا m (ṭīkā), ٹِیکا کاری m (ṭīkā kārī), ٹیکہ کاری (ṭīka- kārī)
• Vietnamese: sự tiêm chủng
• Võro: vaktsiniirmine
• Welsh: brechiad m

Danish

Noun

vaccination c (singular definite vaccinationen, plural indefinite vaccinationer)

1. vaccination

Declension

Declension of vaccination

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	vaccination	vaccinationen	vaccinationer	vaccinationerne
genitive	vaccinations	vaccinationens	vaccinationers	vaccinationernes

Related terms

• vaccine
• vaccinere

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vak.si.na.sjɔ̃/

• Audio:

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Noun

vaccination f (plural vaccinations)

1. vaccination

Related terms

• vaccin
• vacciner
• vaccinologie
• vaccinologue

 

Further reading

• “vaccination”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Swedish

Noun

vaccination c

1. vaccination

Declension

Declension of vaccination

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	vaccination	vaccinations
	definite	vaccinationen	vaccinationens
plural	indefinite	vaccinationer	vaccinationers
	definite	vaccinationerna	vaccinationernas

Related terms

• vaccin
• vaccinera

References

• vaccination in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• vaccination in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• vaccination in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)