Oxford Dictionaries has chosen a word of the year for 2021

The word of the year 2021 according to the Oxford Dictionary is vax (“vaccine”, “vaccinate”, “vaccinate”). From him, against the background of a mass vaccination campaign, such neologisms were formed,

The Oxford Dictionary's word of the year for 2021 is vax, which means "vaccine", "vaccination", "to vaccinate". This is reported on the Oxford Languages ​​website.

The word vax was used 72 times more this year than last year.

“There is no word that better reflects the atmosphere of this year than vax,” the compilers of the dictionary noted.

The word vax was first recorded in English in 1799, and its derivatives vaccinate and vaccination in 1800. These words come from the Latin vacca, which means cow. However, against the background of the CORONAVIRUS pandemic and mass vaccination, the word vax and its derivatives began to be used many times more often, the report says. In addition, neologisms such as:

vaxxie ("waxie") - photos taken during vaccination, by analogy with a selfie; vax-a-thon ("waxathon") - an event during which people are massively vaccinated, in particular against covid-19 ; vaxinista ("vaccinist", ironically) is a person who has been vaccinated against the coronavirus and flaunts this status on social networks. Sometimes it is also used to refer to those who participated in the development, delivery or administration of a vaccine.