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)

Una vacca (2.1)

Una vacca (2.3)

(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

Inherited from Latin vacca.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvak.ka/

• Audio (una vacca):

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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

   Hyponym: 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/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvak.ka/,

vacca f (genitive vaccae); first declension

1. cow (female cattle)

First-declension noun.

• taurus

• bōs

• vaccifōrmis
• vaccīnus
• vaccula

• “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]‎, 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