vaccinus

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-Europeander.?

Latin vacca

Proto-Indo-European *-nós

Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos

Proto-Italic *-īnos

Latin -īnus

Latin vaccīnus

From vacca + -īnus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [wakˈkiː.nʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [vatˈt͡ʃiː.nus]

Adjective

vaccīnus (feminine vaccīna, neuter vaccīnum); first/second-declension adjective

1. of or derived from a cow; (relational) cow

Declension

• First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	vaccīnus	vaccīna	vaccīnum		vaccīnī	vaccīnae	vaccīna
genitive	vaccīnī	vaccīnae	vaccīnī		vaccīnōrum	vaccīnārum	vaccīnōrum
dative	vaccīnō	vaccīnae	vaccīnō		vaccīnīs
accusative	vaccīnum	vaccīnam	vaccīnum		vaccīnōs	vaccīnās	vaccīna
ablative	vaccīnō	vaccīnā	vaccīnō		vaccīnīs
vocative	vaccīne	vaccīna	vaccīnum		vaccīnī	vaccīnae	vaccīna

Descendants

• Catalan: vaccí
• English: vaccine
• Esperanto: vakcino
• French: vaccin, vaccine
• → Galician: vacina
• Irish: vacsaín
• Italian: vaccino
• → Portuguese: vacina
• Romanian: vaccin, vecin

References

• “vaccinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vaccinus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.