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- Latin · derived fromvacca
- French · derived fromvacherie
- English todayvachery
From French vacherie, from vache (“a cow”), Latin vacca. Compare vaccary. By surface analysis, French vache + -ery.
Words from the same roots
Latinvacca all →
vaccinationvacci-vacciolous
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.