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At least wikipedia seems to partially agree (on the cow part), with citations I couldn't verify:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccinia#History

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowpox

I meant on the etymology of cine / aid. Must have valued out when I wrote my previous comment.

ine/inus is a Latin possessive suffix that appears in many words. https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/-inus

Thank you, that's what I was after.

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