vaccinus Latin · revision 4615

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Pliny the Elder|origins=la vacca}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [wakˈkiː.nʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [vatˈt͡ʃiː.nus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''vaccīnus''' (feminine vaccīna, neuter vaccīnum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|vacca|-īnus|t1=cow]].^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010) Etymonline calls [[m|la|vacca]] a word of uncertain origin.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Pliny the Elder, in his Natural History, speaks of cow's milk, beef and cow's-milk cheese.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) Köbler dates him 23/24–79 AD.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant of or from a cow, as ''lac vaccīnum'' “cow's milk” in Pliny the Elder and Marcellus Empiricus.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

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+ In medieval Latin it was also used of beef and of cow leather, and a writer notes that cow's milk is richer in butter than sheep's.^(DMLBS) Edward Jenner's ''variolae vaccīnae'' “cowpox” gave [[en|vaccination]] in 1800 and the adjective ''vaccine'' in 1798, and the noun [[en|vaccine]] came in 1846 from French ''vaccin''.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder uses it of cow's milk.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1798 – English ''vaccine'' “of cows” is recorded.^(Etymonline)

+ * 1800 – Jenner's ''vaccination'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Of or from a [[m|en|cow]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Of cow leather.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[vacca]]

+ * [[en|vaccine]]

+ * [[en|vaccination]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}