vaccinate

English

Etymology

From vaccine +‎ -ate.

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): /ˈvæksɪneɪt/
• Hyphenation: vac‧ci‧nate

Verb

vaccinate (third-person singular simple present vaccinates, present participle vaccinating, simple past and past participle vaccinated)

1. Treat with a vaccine to produce immunity against a disease.
   • 1933, Groucho Marx, Duck Soup (movie)

     You haven't stopped talking since I came here! You must have been vaccinated with a phonograph needle!

   • 2021 February 24, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Vaccines and railways”, in RAIL, number 925, page 3:

     Within weeks, Britain had vaccinated more people than France, Germany, Italy and Spain combined, a stunning achievement.

Related terms

• unvaccinated
• vaccinated
• vaccination
• vaccinationist
• vaccine

Derived terms

• vaccinator

Translations

treat with a vaccine

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: պատվաստել (hy) (patvastel)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: vacunar (ca), vaccinar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 接种 (zh) (jiēzhǒng), 接種／接种 (zh) (jiēzhǒng)

• Czech: očkovat
• Danish: vaccinere
• Dutch: inenten (nl), vaccineren (nl)
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: vaktsineerima, kaitsepookimist tegema
• Faroese: koppseta
• Finnish: rokottaa (fi)
• French: vacciner (fr)
• Georgian: ცრის (cris), აცრას აკეთებს (acras aḳetebs), აცრას აწარმოებს (acras ac̣armoebs), ვაქცინაციას აწარმოებს (vakcinacias ac̣armoebs), ვაქცინაციას ახდენს (vakcinacias axdens), ვაქცინირებს (vakcinirebs)
• German: impfen (de)
• Hebrew: חיסן (khisén)
• Hungarian: beolt (hu)
• Icelandic: bólusetja
• Irish: vacsaínigh
• Italian: vaccinare (it)
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
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• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 접종하다 (jeopjonghada)
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norman: vaccinner (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: vaksinere (no)

  Nynorsk: vaksinera, vaksinere

• Polish: szczepić (pl)
• Portuguese: vacinar (pt)
• Romanian: vaccina (ro)
• Russian: вакцини́ровать (ru) impf or pf (vakcinírovatʹ), де́лать приви́вку impf (délatʹ privívku), сде́лать приви́вку pf (sdélatʹ privívku)
• Slovak: vakcinovať
• Slovene: cepiti
• Spanish: vacunar (es)
• Swedish: vaccinera (sv)
• Tagalog: bakunahan
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: aşılamak (tr), aşı yapmak
• Vietnamese: chích ngừa, tiêm chủng, chủng ngừa (vi), tiêm phòng (vi), chích (vi), chủng (vi)
• Welsh: brechu (cy)
• Westrobothnian:

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Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

vaccinate

1. inflection of vaccinare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

vaccinate f pl

1. feminine plural of vaccinato

Anagrams

• accentavi

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Latin

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) vaccīnāte

1. vocative masculine singular of vaccīnātus