# vacca
## Corsican
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈvakːa/

### Etymology 1

From Latin vacca, from Proto-Indo-European *woḱéh₂. Cognates include Italian vacca and Spanish vaca.

#### Noun

vacca f (masculine toru, plural vacche)
* cow (female cattle)

### Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

#### Noun

vacca f (plural vacche)
* red-black triplefin (Tripterygion tripteronotus)
* cline (Cristiceps argentatus)
* peacock blenny (Salaria pavo)

### References

* “vacca” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

## Dalmatian
### Noun

vacca f
* Alternative form of vaca

## Interlingua
### Noun

vacca (plural vaccas)
* cow

## Italian
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin vacca.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈvak.ka/
* Audio (una vacca):(file)
* Rhymes: -akka
* Hyphenation: vàc‧ca

### Noun

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
    Hyponym: mucca
* (vulgar, slang, figurative, derogatory) whore, slut

#### Usage notes

* 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

* stravaccarsi
* vaccaio
* vaccaro
* vaccherella
* vaccheria
* vacchetta
* vacchino

#### Related terms

* vaccino

#### Descendants

* → Alemannic German: Wagge

#### See also

* bue
* toro
* vitello

### Further reading

* vacca in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

## Latin
### Etymology

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.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈu̯ak.ka/, [ˈu̯äkːä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈvak.ka/, [ˈväkːä]

### Noun

vacca f (genitive vaccae); first declension
* cow (female cattle)

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Antonyms

* taurus

#### Hypernyms

* bōs

#### Derived terms

* vaccifōrmis
* vaccīnus
* vaccula

#### Descendants

* Balkan Romance:
** Aromanian: vacã
** Istro-Romanian: våcĕ
** Megleno-Romanian: vacă
** Romanian: vacă
* Dalmatian:
** vaca, baka, vacca, baca, bacca
* Italo-Romance:
** Corsican: vacca
** Italian: vacca
*** → Alemannic German: Wagge
** Sicilian: vacca
* Padanian:
** Gallo-Italic:
*** Emilian: vaca
*** Ligurian: vacca
*** Lombard: àca, vaca, vacja
*** Piedmontese: vaca
*** Romagnol: vàca
** Friulian: vacje, vačhe (alternative orthography)
** Ladin: vacia
** Romansch: vatga, vacca, vacha
** Venetan: vaca
* Gallo-Romance:
** Catalan: vaca
** Franco-Provençal: vache
** Old French: vache (see there for further descendants)
** Occitan: vaca
* Ibero-Romance:
** Aragonese: baca
** Asturian: vaca
** Extremaduran: vaca
** Mirandese: baca
** Old Galician-Portuguese: vaca
*** Fala: vaca
*** Galician: vaca
*** Portuguese: vaca (see there for further descendants)
** Old Spanish: vaca
*** Ladino: vaka
*** Spanish: vaca (see there for further descendants)
* Insular Romance:
** Sardinian: bacca, bàca
* Borrowings:
** → English: vacci-

### References

* “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
### Alternative forms

* 𑀯𑀘𑁆𑀘 (Brahmi script)
* वच्च (Devanagari script)
* ৰচ্চ (Bengali script)
* වච‍්ච (Sinhalese script)
* ဝစ္စ or ဝၸ္ၸ or ဝၸ်ၸ (Burmese script)
* วจฺจ or วัจจะ (Thai script)
* ᩅᨧ᩠ᨧ (Tai Tham script)
* ວຈ຺ຈ or ວັຈຈະ (Lao script)
* វច្ច (Khmer script)
* 𑅇𑄌𑄴𑄌 (Chakma script)

### Noun

vacca n
* excrement

#### Declension
### References

Pali Text Society (1921–1925) “vacca”, in Pali-English Dictionary‎, London: Chipstead >

## Portuguese
### Noun

vacca f (plural vaccas)
* 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.

## Romansch
### Alternative forms

* vatga (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran)
* vacha (Puter, Vallader)

### Etymology

From Latin vacca.

### Noun

vacca f (plural vaccas)
* (Sursilvan) cow

## Sardinian
### Alternative forms

* bacca

### Etymology

From Latin vacca.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbakka/, /ˈvakka/ (in certain Nuorese towns)

### Noun

vacca
* cow

#### Synonyms

* bàca

#### Related terms

* vacchinu

## Sicilian
### Etymology

From Latin vacca.

### Noun

vacca f
* cow