名詞: n.
The goddess of rural leisure, to whom the husbandmen sacrificed at the close of the harvest. She was especially honored by the Sabines.

vacuna (f)
n. vaccine, solution of weakened or modified pathogen cells which is injected into the body in order to stimulate the production of antibodies to a disease; program that is designed to protect against computer viruses; vaccination


vacunar
v. vaccinate, render unsusceptible to a disease by inoculating


vacuno
adj. bovine, of or pertaining to a ruminant mammal belonging to the genus Bos; resembling a cow or bull

In Roman mythology, Vacuna was an ancient Latin goddess, mainly worshiped at Tivoli. She was later identified with Ceres and Diana. She protected the farmers’ sheep, which in return offered her gifts and sacrifices after the harvest. Vacuna was later identified with Nike and worshipped as goddess of war. In her honor the Vacunalia were celebrated at the beginning of winter.

Edmond Courbaud, Horace : sa vie et sa pensée à l’époque des Épîtres, Paris, 1914, ch. 2, § 7, note 16. Online on espace-horace
A. W. van Buren, « Vacuna », The Journal of Roman Studies, Vol. 6, 1916 (1916), pp. 202-204.
Elizabeth Cornelia Evans, « Horace's Sabine Goddess Vacuna », Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, Vol. 65, 1934 (1934).
This article incorporates text by Leonhard Schmitz from the article "Vacuna" in the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870), vol. 3, p. 1202.

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