Where does “anti-vaccination” come from?
anti-vaccination (English) comes from English vaccination, from English vaccinia, from Latin vacca, from Proto-Indo-European wokeh₂-.
anti-vaccination (English): being against vaccination
Definitions
- being against vaccination
Ancestry of “anti-vaccination”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | vaccination | Inoculation with a vaccine, in order to protect... |
| 2 | English | vaccinia | An infection of cowpox; The virus which causes... |
| 3 | Latin | vacca | cow |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | wokeh₂- | — |