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“cow” in Latin
vaccacow (female cattle)bōshead of cattle (cow, bull, steer, or ox)vacculaheifer (or small cow)Catullusa cognomen; a Latin poet of the late Roman Republic who wrote chiefly in the neoteric style of poetryvitulathe Roman goddess of joy and victory. See (Vitulatio); a young cow, a female calf, a heifer; a stringed musical instrumeiuvencusyoungbūculaheiferfordaA cow in calf.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
cow
vacca: bos femina, or bos only (if it is not necessary to allude to the sex): a little cow, vaccula (Catullus): a cow-calf, vitula: a young cow, juvenca (general term): bucula (if it has not yet calved): forda (that is in calf): a milch-cow, *vacca, quae lac habet [☞ lactarius means, that is still fed with the mother’s milk; e.g., bos lactarius, Varr.] . Cows employed in husbandry, vaccae operariae (Col. 6, 24): a cow that gives no milk must be put to the plough, sterilis vacca aratro deputanda est (Pall.): to use cows in the plough, vaccis arare (Col.): to put or take a cow to the bull, vaccam tauro submittere, or vaccae taurum admittere: of or from a cow, vaccinus. bubulus (if the sex is not important) [☞ bovinus, in Liv. (de bovino grege), is from an old religious form.] : cows milk, lac vaccinum or bubulum. A cow’s udder, uber vaccae.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for cow?
- The usual Latin words for “cow” are vacca, bōs, vaccula; also Catullus, vitula, iuvencus. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.