aqua

See also: aqua- and àqua

English

Etymology

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈækwə/, /ˈɑːkwə/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -ækwə, -ɑːkwə

Noun

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

• (water): see Thesaurus:water

Related terms

water

• aqua fortis
• aqua regia

 

Adjective

aqua (comparative more aqua, superlative most aqua)

1. Of a greenish-blue colour.

   Synonym: aquamarine

Derived terms

• aqua aerobics
• aqua ammonia
• aqua ammoniae
• aqua aura
• aquabib
• aqua bike
• aquabis
• aquabob
• aquacade
• aquacise
• aquacrop
• aquaculture
• aquaculturist
• aquadynamic
• aquaerobics
• aqua jogging
• aqualung
• aquamarine
• aqua mirabilis
• aquanaut
• aquaphobia
• aquaplane
• aqua pumpaginis
• aqua regis
• aqua Tofana
• aqua vitæ
• aqua walking
• aqueous
• aquiculture
• aquifer
• aquitard
• subaqua

 

See also

• (blues) blue; Alice blue, aqua, aquamarine, azure, baby blue, beryl, bice, bice blue, blue green, blue violet, blueberry, cadet blue, Cambridge blue, cerulean, cobalt blue, Copenhagen blue, cornflower, cornflower blue, cyan, dark blue, Dodger blue, duck-egg blue, eggshell blue, electric-blue, gentian blue, ice blue, lapis lazuli, light blue, lovat, mazarine, midnight blue, navy, Nile blue, Oxford blue, peacock blue, petrol blue, powder blue, Prussian blue, robin's-egg blue, royal blue, sapphire, saxe blue, slate blue, sky blue, teal, turquoise, ultramarine, Wedgwood blue, zaffre ^{(Category: en:Blues)}

Dalmatian

Alternative forms

• jacqua, acqua

Etymology

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

Noun

aqua

1. (Vegliot) water

References

• 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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaku̯a/, /ˈakva/

Adjective

aqua

1. aqueous

Indonesian

Etymology

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

Noun

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

1. (colloquial) bottled water

Synonyms

• air minum dalam kemasan

Interlingua

Noun

aqua (plural aquas)

1. water

Istriot

Etymology

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

Noun

aqua f (plural aque)

1. water

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Noun

aqua f (plural aque)

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

References

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

Latin

Alternative forms

• acua
• acqua (Appendix Probi)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.kʷa/, [ˈäkʷä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.kwa/, [ˈäːkwä]
• Note: rarely appears as a three-syllable (e.g. Lucretius DRN.6.1072).

Noun

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.

   • 8th century CE, Paulus Diaconus, Karl Otfried Müller, editor, Excerpta ex libris Pompeii Festi De significatione verborum, page 2:

     Aqua dīcitur, ā quā iuvāmur.

     Water is called that which sustains us.

Declension

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

• aqua fortis
• aqua rēgia
• aqua vītae
• Aqua, Aquae
• aquaeductus
• aquaemola
• aquagium
• aquāliculus
• aquālis
• aquārium
• aquārius
• aquāticus
• aquātilis
• aquātus
• aqueus
• aquifuga
• aquigenus
• aquilentus
• aquimināle
• aquivergium
• aquola
• aquor
• aquōsus

 

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: apã, ape
  • Istro-Romanian: åpe
  • Megleno-Romanian: apu
  • Romanian: apă
• Gallo-Italic
  • Emilian: âcua
  • Ligurian: aigua, ægoa
  • Lombard: ègua, eigua, aigua
  • Piedmontese: eva, ava
  • Romagnol: aqua, acva
  • Venetian: àcua
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Aragonese: augua, aigua, agua
  • Old Catalan: aigua
    • Catalan: aigua
  • Old Franco-Provençal: egua, aigua, eva
    • Franco-Provençal: aigoua, aiva, égoua
  • Old French: iaue (see there for further descendants)
    • French: eau
    • Norman: iâo, iaoue; ieau; yo, ieau, iâo; iaoue; yo, yo, iâo; iaoue; ieau
    • Picard: iau
    • Walloon: aiwe
  • Old Occitan: agua, aigua, aiga
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Navarro-Aragonese: agua
  • Old Leonese: agua
    • Asturian: agua
    • Extremaduran: áugua
    • Leonese: augua
    • Mirandese: auga
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: agua, auga, augua
    • Fala: agua
    • Galician: auga, agua
    • Portuguese: água, auga (see there for further descendants)
  • Old Spanish: agua
    • Ladino: agua / אגוה‎
    • Spanish: agua (see there for further descendants)
    • → Sabir: agua, lagua
• Italo-Dalmatian
  • Corsican: acqua
  • Dalmatian: jacqua, acqua, aqua
  • Gallurese: ea, eva
  • Istriot: aqua
  • Italian: acqua
    • → Lombard: acqua
  • Neapolitan: aqua

    Tarantino: acqua

  • Sassarese: eba
  • Sicilian: acqua, iacqua, jacqua
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: aghe
  • Ladin: ega (Cazét), aga (Brach)
  • Romansch: aua, ava, ova
• Sardinian:
  • Campidanese: àcua
  • Logudorese: abba
  • Nuorese: abba
• Borrowings:
  • → Middle English: aqua
    • English: aqua
    • Scots: aqua

Further reading

• “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

Neapolitan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin aqua. Compare Italian acqua.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈakwa/

Noun

aqua f (plural aque)

1. water
2. rain

References

• 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

Middle English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin aqua.

Noun

aqua (uncountable)

1. water
2. decoction

Descendants

• English: aqua
• Scots: aqua

References

• “aqua, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Venetian

Noun

aqua f

1. water

References

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