vacina

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Galician

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin vaccina < vaccinus. Meaning comes from New or Scientific Latin (variola) vaccina (“cowpox”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /baˈθina̝/, (western) /baˈsina̝/

Noun

vacina f (plural vacinas)

vaccine

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin vaccīna. Meaning comes from New or Scientific Latin (variola) vaccina (“cowpox”).

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /vaˈsĩ.nɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /vaˈsi.na/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /vɐˈsi.nɐ/, /vaˈsi.nɐ/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɐˈsi.nɐ/, /baˈsi.nɐ/

Hyphenation: va‧ci‧na

Noun

vacina f (plural vacinas)

vaccine
Synonym: (Portugal, childish) pica

Related terms

vaca

Etymology 2

Verb

vacina

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

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