vaccine

Etymology 1


, from +. Sense 1 refers to the early use of the cowpox virus as a vaccination against smallpox: see 🇨🇬, coined by the British physician and scientist (1749–1823).

Adjective

 * 1)  Of, pertaining to, caused by, or characteristic of cowpox.
 * 2)  Of or pertaining to cowpox as a source of material for vaccination against smallpox; also, of or pertaining to such material used for vaccination.
 * 3)  Of, pertaining to, or derived from cattle.
 * 1)  Of, pertaining to, or derived from cattle.
 * 1)  Of, pertaining to, or derived from cattle.

Translations

 * Finnish: lehmänrokko-
 * Portuguese: vacínico


 * Finnish: lehmänrokko-
 * Portuguese: vacínico

Etymology 2
The is probably partly:


 * derived from (see etymology 1); and
 * borrowed from, , both noun uses of , from (see etymology 1).

The is derived from the noun.



Noun

 * 1) A substance given to stimulate a body's production of antibodies and provide immunity against a disease without causing the disease itself in the treatment, prepared from the agent that causes the disease (or a derivative of it; or a related, also effective, but safer disease), or a synthetic substitute; also, a dose of such a substance.
 * 2) The process of vaccination; immunization, inoculation.
 * 3)  material taken from cowpox pustules used for vaccination against smallpox.
 * 4)  The disease cowpox, especially as a source of material for vaccination against smallpox.
 * 5) Something defensive or protective in nature, like a vaccine (sense 1.1).
 * 6)  A software program which protects computers against, or detects and neutralizes, computer viruses and other types of malware; an antivirus.
 * 1)  material taken from cowpox pustules used for vaccination against smallpox.
 * 2)  The disease cowpox, especially as a source of material for vaccination against smallpox.
 * 3) Something defensive or protective in nature, like a vaccine (sense 1.1).
 * 4)  A software program which protects computers against, or detects and neutralizes, computer viruses and other types of malware; an antivirus.
 * 1)  A software program which protects computers against, or detects and neutralizes, computer viruses and other types of malware; an antivirus.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: ,
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: لَقَاح
 * Armenian: ,
 * Assamese: ছিটা, টিকা
 * Asturian: vacuna
 * Azerbaijani: vaksin,, peyvənd
 * Basque: txerto
 * Belarusian: вакцы́на
 * Bengali: ভ্যাক্সিন,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 疫苗
 * Hokkien:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:, očkovací látka
 * Danish:
 * Dhivehi: ވެކްސިން
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: vaktsiin
 * Faroese: koppingarevni
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:, აცრა
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Gujarati: રસી
 * Hawaiian: lāʻau koʻokoʻo
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: वैक्सीन,
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Icelandic: bóluefni
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: vacsaín
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kannada:
 * Kazakh: вакцина
 * Khmer:
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:, ,
 * Kyrgyz: вакцина
 * Ladin: dlavea
 * Lao: ວັກຊີນ
 * Latvian: vakcīna
 * Lithuanian: vakcina, skiepas
 * Macedonian: вакци́на
 * Malagasy:
 * Malay:, benih cacar, , tampang cacar
 * Malayalam: വാക്സിൻ,
 * Maltese: vaċċin, tilqima
 * Maori: rongoā āraimate
 * Marathi: लस
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Norman: vaccîn
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: vaksine
 * Pashto: واکسين
 * Persian:
 * Pingelapese: doak in silasil
 * Pohnpeian: dok en silasil
 * Polish: wakcyna,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: banachdach
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: вакци́на, це̏пӣво, цје̏пӣво
 * Latin:, ,
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:, dawa ya chanjo
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Tajik: ваксина
 * Telugu: వ్యాక్సిన్, వ్యాక్సీన్,
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: waksina
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: ویکسین, ٹیکا, ٹیکہ, حفاظتی ٹیکا, حفاظتی ٹیکہ
 * Uyghur: ۋاكسىنا
 * Uzbek:, vaktsina
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Welsh: brechlyn
 * Yakut: вакцина, быһыы
 * Yiddish: וואַקצין
 * Zhuang: yizmyauz


 * Finnish: lehmänrokosta tehty isorokkorokote


 * Finnish: