vacsaín

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Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from English vaccine, from Latin vaccīnus, from vacca (cow) (because of early use of the cowpox virus against smallpox).

Noun

vacsaín f (genitive singular vacsaíne, nominative plural vacsaíní)

  1. (immunology) vaccine

Declension

Declension of vacsaín (second declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative vacsaín vacsaíní
vocative a vacsaín a vacsaíní
genitive vacsaíne vacsaíní
dative vacsaín vacsaíní
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an vacsaín na vacsaíní
genitive na vacsaíne na vacsaíní
dative leis an vacsaín
don vacsaín
leis na vacsaíní

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