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aqua

See also: aqua- and àqua

English edit

Etymology edit

From Middle English aqua (“water”), borrowed from Latin aqua. Perhaps also a learned borrowing directly from Latin. Doublet of ea, Eau, eau, and yeo.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈækwə/, /ˈɑːkwə/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ækwə, -ɑːkwə

Noun edit

aqua (countable and uncountable, plural aquas or aquae)

  1. (inorganic chemistry) The compound water.
  2. A shade of colour, usually a mix of blue and green similar to the colour turquoise.
    aqua:  
    • 2009 June 27, Patricia Cohen, “Employing Art Along With Ambassadors”, in New York Times‎[1]:
      Ms. Rockburne, with help from a team of artists, is working on a gargantuan mural of deep blues, shimmering aquas and luminous gold leaf that is headed for the American Embassy in Kingston, Jamaica.
    Synonym: aquamarine

Synonyms edit

Related terms edit

water

Adjective edit

aqua (comparative more aqua, superlative most aqua)

  1. Of a greenish-blue colour.
    Synonym: aquamarine

Derived terms edit

See also edit

Dalmatian edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Latin aqua from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ékʷeh₂. Compare Venetian àcua, Italian acqua.

Noun edit

aqua

  1. (Vegliot) water

References edit

  • Ive, A. (1886) “L'antico dialetto di Veglia [The old dialect of Veglia]”, in G. I. Ascoli, editor, Archivio glottologico italiano [Italian linguistic archive], volume 9, Rome: E. Loescher, pages 115–187

Ido edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈaku̯a/, /ˈakva/

Adjective edit

aqua

  1. aqueous

Indonesian edit

Etymology edit

A genericized trademark of the Indonesian trademark Aqua, from Latin aqua (“water”).

Noun edit

aqua (first-person possessive aquaku, second-person possessive aquamu, third-person possessive aquanya)

  1. (colloquial) bottled water

Synonyms edit

Interlingua edit

Noun edit

aqua (plural aquas)

  1. water

Istriot edit

Etymology edit

From Latin aqua from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ékʷeh₂. Compare Venetian àcua, Italian acqua.

Noun edit

aqua f (plural aque)

  1. water

Italian edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈa.kwa/
  • Rhymes: -akwa
  • Hyphenation: à‧qua

Noun edit

aqua f (plural aque)

  1. (dialectal or archaic) Alternative form of acqua (“water”).

References edit

  • acqua in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂ékʷeh₂. Cognate with Proto-Germanic *ahwō (“water, stream”).[1]

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

aqua f (genitive aquae); first declension

  1. water
    aqua dulcis ― fresh water
    crībrō aquam haurīre ― to draw water with a sieve, to flog a dead horse (proverb)
    Lavō cum aquā ― I wash with water
    • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Genesis.1.2:
      Terra autem erat inānis et vacua, et tenebrae erant super faciem abyssī: et spīritus Deī ferēbātur super aquās.
      And the earth was void and empty, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the spirit of God moved over the waters.
    • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Genesis.1.6:
      Dīxit quoque Deus fīat firmāmentum in mediō aquārum et dīvidat aquās ab aquīs.
      And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
    • 1839 [8th century CE], Paulus Diaconus, edited by Karl Otfried Müller, Excerpta ex libris Pompeii Festi De significatione verborum, page 2, line 14:
      Aqua dīcitur, ā quā iuvāmur.
      Water is called that which sustains us.

Declension edit

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative aqua aquae
Genitive aquae aquārum
Dative aquae aquīs
Accusative aquam aquās
Ablative aquā aquīs
Vocative aqua aquae
  • The genitive singular is also archaic aquāī.

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

References edit

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “aqua”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 48–49

Further reading edit

  • “aqua”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “aqua”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • aqua in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • aqua in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • the surface of the water: summa aqua
    • to stand out of the water: ex aqua exstare
    • the water reaches to the waist: aqua est umbilīco tenus
    • the water is up to, is above, the chest: aqua pectus aequat, superat
    • to come to the surface: (se) ex aqua emergere
    • to draw off water from a river: aquam ex flumine derivare
    • to bring a stream of water through the garden: aquam ducere per hortum
    • a conduit; an aqueduct: aquae ductus (plur. aquarum ductus)
    • running water: aqua viva, profluens (opp. stagnum)
    • a perpetual spring: aqua iugis, perennis
    • ill-watered: aquae, aquarum inops
    • to slake one's thirst by a draught of cold water: sitim haustu gelidae aquae sedare
    • to proscribe a person, declare him an outlaw: aqua et igni interdicere alicui
  • “aqua”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Middle English edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Latin aqua.

Noun edit

aqua (uncountable)

  1. water
  2. decoction

Descendants edit

References edit

Neapolitan edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Latin aqua. Compare Italian acqua.

Pronunciation edit

  • (Naples) IPA(key): [ˈakwă]
  • (Castelmezzano) IPA(key): [ˈakwə]

Noun edit

aqua f (plural aque)

  1. water
  2. rain

References edit

  • AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1037: “acqua” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it

Venetian edit

Noun edit

aqua f

  1. water

References edit

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