vache

See also: vačhe and la vache

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• vacã

Etymology

From Latin vacca. Compare Romanian vacă.

Noun

vache f (plural vets, definite singular vaca)

1. cow

Franco-Provençal

Etymology

Inherited from Latin vacca.

Noun

vache f (plural vaches) (ORB, broad)

1. female cow

   Coordinate term: bôf m

References

• vache in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• vache in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

Further information

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1045: “quella vacca” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• ALF: Atlas Linguistique de la France [Linguistic Atlas of France] – map 1349B: “la vache” – on lig-tdcge.imag.fr
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “vache”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 14: U–Z, page 97

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French and Old French vache, from Latin vacca.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vaʃ/

• Audio:

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Noun

vache f (plural vaches)

1. cow (bovine)

Derived terms

• chacun son métier, les vaches seront bien gardées
• la vache
• maladie de la vache folle
• parler français comme une vache espagnole
• peau de vache
• plancher des vaches
• pleuvoir comme vache qui pisse
• ranz des vaches
• vache à lait
• vache de mer
• vache sacrée
• vacher
• vacherie
• vacherin
• vaches maigres
• vachette

Descendants

• Haitian Creole: vach

See also

• bœuf
• taureau

Adjective

vache (plural vaches)

1. (informal) harsh

   C’est vache! ― That is harsh!

2. (informal, slang) nasty

Derived terms

• vachement

Further reading

• “vache”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/French/Appendices/Slang#Glossary
• “vache” in the Dictionnaire de l’Académie française, 8th Edition (1932–35).

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French vache, from Latin vacca.

Noun

vache f (plural vaches)

1. cow (bovine)

Descendants

• French: vache
  • Haitian Creole: vach

Old French

Etymology

From Latin vacca.

Noun

vache oblique singular, f (oblique plural vaches, nominative singular vache, nominative plural vaches)

1. cow (bovine)

Descendants

• Angevin: vache
• Bourguignon: vaiche
• Champenois: vaiche (Troyen), vate (Rémois)
• Franc-Comtois: vaitche
• Middle French: vache
  • French: vache
    • Haitian Creole: vach
• Lorrain: vèche
• Norman: vaque
• Picard: vake
• Poitevin-Saintongeais: vache
• Walloon: vatche

Venetan

Noun

vache

1. plural of vaca