aqua – Wiktionary

See also: aqua- and àqua

English

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

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aqua (countable and uncountable, plural aquas or aquae)

  1. (

    inorganic chemistry

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    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]:

      June 27, Patricia Cohen, “Employing Art Along With Ambassadors”, in

      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.

    aquamarine

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  • (

    water

    )

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    see Thesaurus:water

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water

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aqua (comparative more aqua, superlative most aqua)

  1. Of a greenish-blue colour.
    aquamarine

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Etymology

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

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aqua

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  • 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

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aqua

Indonesian

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Etymology

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

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

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Interlingua

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aqua (plural aquas)

Istriot

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

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aqua f (plural aque)

Italian

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Etymology

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From Latin aqua, from Proto-Italic *akʷā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ekʷeh₂.

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aqua f (plural aque)

  1. acqua

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    water

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    Alternative form of

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aqua: significato e definizione – Dizionari – La Repubblica

Latin

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Alternative forms

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  • acua
  • acquaAppendix Probi)

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From Proto-Italic *akʷā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ékʷeh₂. Cognate with Gothic 𐌰𐍈𐌰 (aƕa, “river”), English ea.

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    Classical

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    IPA(key):

    /ˈa.kʷa/

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    [ˈäkʷä]

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    IPA(key):

    /ˈa.kwa/

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    [ˈäːkwä]

  • Note: rarely appears as a three-syllable (e.g. Lucretius DRN.6.1072).

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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

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    Lavō cum aquā ―

    I wash with water

    • 405 , Jerome, Vulgate Genesis 1:2:
      aquās.

      Terra autem erat inānis et vacua , et tenebrae erant super faciem abyssī : et spīritus Deī ferēbātur super

      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.

      Genesis 1:2:

    • 405 , 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.

      Genesis 1:6:

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

      Aqua dīcitur, ā quā iuvāmur.

      Water is called that which sustains us.

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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.

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  • Balkan Romance:
    • Aromanian: apãape
    • Istro-Romanian: åpe
    • Megleno-Romanian: apu
    • Romanian: apă
  • Gallo-Italic
    • Emilian: âcua
    • Ligurian: aiguaægoa
    • Lombard: èguaeiguaaigua
    • Piedmontese: evaava
    • Romagnol: aquaacva
    • Venetian: àcua
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Aragonese: auguaaiguaagua
    • Old Catalan: aigua
      • Catalan: aigua
    • Old Franco-Provençal: egua, aiguaeva
      • Franco-Provençal: aigouaaivaégoua
    • Old French: iaue (see there for further descendants)
      • French: eau
      • Norman: iâoiaoueieauyoieauiâoiaoueyoyoiâoiaoueieau
      • Picard: iau
      • Walloon: aiwe
    • Old Occitan: aguaaiguaaiga
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Navarro-Aragonese: agua
    • Old Leonese: agua
      • Asturian: agua
      • Extremaduran: áugua
      • Leonese: augua
      • Mirandese: auga
    • Old Galician-Portuguese: aguaaugaaugua
      • Fala: agua
      • Galician: augaagua
      • Portuguese: águaauga (see there for further descendants)
    • Old Spanish: agua
      • Ladino: agua / אגוה
      • Spanish: agua (see there for further descendants)

      • →

        Sabir: agualagua

  • Italo-Dalmatian
    • Corsican: acqua
    • Dalmatian: jacquaacquaaqua
    • Gallurese: eaeva
    • Istriot: aqua
    • Italian: acqua

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        Lombard: acqua

    • Neapolitan: acqua
      Tarantino: acqua
    • Sassarese: eba
    • Sicilian: acquaiacquajacqua
  • Rhaeto-Romance:
    • Friulian: aghe
    • Ladin: ega

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      Cazét

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      Brach

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    • Romansch: auaavaova
  • Sardinian:
    • Campidanese: àcua
    • Logudorese: abba
    • Nuorese: abba
  • Borrowings:

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      Middle English: aqua

      • English: aqua
      • Scots: aqua

References

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  • “

    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

  • aquaGlossarium 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

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Borrowed from Latin aqua.

Noun

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aqua (uncountable)

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Venetian

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aqua f

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