Where does “vaccine” come from?

Vaccine derives from Latin vaccinus, an adjective formed from Latin -inus attached to a root from Proto-Indo-European wokeh₂-, meaning cow, with the suffix Proto-Indo-European -iHnos and -no-.

vaccine (English): A substance given to stimulate the body's...

Definitions

  1. A substance given to stimulate the body's...

Ancestry of “vaccine”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchvaccineinflection of vacciner: ## first/third-person...
2Latinvaccīnusof or derived from a cow; cow
3Latin-īnusof or pertaining to; -ine
4Proto-Italic-īnosof/belonging to
5Proto-Indo-European-iHnosCreates adjectives of materials
6Proto-Indo-European-no-adjectival suffix

Words derived from “vaccine”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -no- →Every word from Latin -īnus →Every word from Latin vaccīnus →