The corpus record — Latin

vacca1

cow

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Where it lives

Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 4 · 10.98/10k
Dittochaeon 1 · 8.17/10k
Eclogues 2 · 4.41/10k
Amores 6 · 3.84/10k
Ars Amatoria 4 · 2.69/10k
Probus 1 · 2.43/10k
De Carne Christi 2 · 2.1/10k
Oedipus 1 · 1.69/10k
Carmina 2 · 1.5/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
Metamorphoses 11 · 1.42/10k
Georgicon 2 · 1.41/10k

Densest 12 of 29 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. vacca — de Vaan

vacca 'cow' [f. a] (Varro+) Has been connected with Skt vasa 'cow' < *uek-eh2 (if PIE), but Latin would require o-grade, and Schrijver has established that *o > a only occurred in open syllables. Thus, the connection cannot be maintained unless one is prepared to reconstruct Pit. *waka- which somehow acquired geminate *-A£-. Muller 1926 suggests a preform *vaka and connects Skt. vasati 'roars' and Lat. vagio. If we … — [de Vaan, s.v. vacca, p. 663]

2. vacca — Lewis & Short

vacca, ae, f.Sanscr. vacā, cow; root vaç, to bellow; cf. vagire,

I a cow, Varr. R. R. 2, 5, 6; Col. 6, 21, 1; Cic. N. D. 1, 27 77; Verg. E. 9, 31; id. G. 2, 524; 3, 177; id. A. 4, 61; Ov. M. 2, 694; Hor. C. 4, 2, 53: boves operariae, used in ploughing, Col. 6, 24. 4; Varr. R. R. 1, 20, 4.

3. Vacca — Lewis & Short

Vacca, ae, f.

I A town of Byzacene in Africa, Auct. B. Afr. 74.—

II A town of Numidia, called also Vaga, now Beja, Sall. J. 29, 4; 47, 1; 68, 3; Sil. 3, 259. —Hence, Vaccensis or Vagensis, e, adj., of or pertaining to Vacca: Vagense oppidum, i. e. Vaga, Plin. 5, 4, 4, § 30.— Vaccenses (Vagen-), ĭum, m., the inhabitants of Vacca, Sall. J. 66, 2.

4. Vacca — Lewis & Short

Vacca, v. Vagia.

5. vacca — Walde–Hofmann

vacca, -ae f. (seit Varro, rom., ebenso *vaccina; vgl. vaccula, -ae f. „kleine Kuh“ seit Catull; vaccinus, -a, -um seit Plin): ai. vagd f. „Kuh (die weder trächtig ist noch ein Kalb nährt, unfruchtbare Kuh)", vasitd f. (später väsitd, Wackernagel Ai. Gr. 1 226) „rindernde Kuh" (Curtius 136. 593, Wackernagel a. O.; vgl. noch Kretschmer Einl 135 m. Lit, wo auch gegen die weitere Anknüpfung an ai. väsatı „brüllt, … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. vacca, p. 1630]

In the wild

vacca Ovid, Epistulae 14.89
vaccae Ovid, Ars Amatoria 3.393
vacca Ovid, Amores 3.5.10
vaccis Livy, Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 41-42 - 42 p23
vaccae Ovid, Metamorphoses 12.151
vaccam Vergil, Aeneid 6.251

6 of 63 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. vacca (scan pp. 663-664; entry #1904). Root candidates: *waka-, *wako-, *wapo-.
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. vacca (scan p. 1630; entry #3132). Root candidates: *u3an-.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.