Where does “vacuna” come from?
vacuna (Asturian) comes from Asturian vacunar, from Catalan vacuna, from Spanish vacuna, from Spanish -a, from Latin -a, from Proto-Italic -ā, from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂.
vacuna (Asturian): vaccine; inflection of vacunar: ## third-person...
Definitions
- vaccine; inflection of vacunar: ## third-person...
Ancestry of “vacuna”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Asturian | vacunar | to vaccinate |
| 2 | Catalan | vacuna | vaccine |
| 3 | Spanish | vacuna | vaccine; feminine singular of vacuno |
| 4 | Spanish | -a | -ess used to form feminine singular nouns; used... |
| 5 | Latin | -a | suffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent... |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -ā | Forms masculine agent nouns from prefixed or compounded bases |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -éh₂ | — |