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William Hupy
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Bovine

Postby William Hupy » Thu Apr 16, 2020 7:27 am

Eschew obfuscation. I was perplexed why we use The word vaccine, which comes from vacca, meaning cow in Latin, when as I erroneously recalled bos is the word for cow in Latin, thus bovine. Faulty memory, bos in Latin is ox in English.
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Re: Bovine

Postby Slava » Thu Aug 03, 2023 3:48 pm

We haven't seen bovine as a stand-alone patient here, but we have had related word, boustrophedon, thrice, here in the Agora.
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