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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is [[bor|la|vaccīnus|t=of cows]], [[der|la|vacca|t=cow]].^(AHD)^(Wiktionary) The word comes from ''variolae vaccīnae'' “cowpox”, the term used by Edward Jenner in his treatise of 1798,^(RHWU)^(Wiktionary)^(OED 1989) cowpox being used in early vaccination against smallpox.^(Wiktionary)
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+ The adjective is recorded in English from 1799 and the noun from 1803;^(OED 1989) the noun “matter used in vaccination” is partly from French ''vaccin''.^(Etymonline)^(MW Collegiate)
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}