aqua

See also:aqua-andàqua

English

Etymology

FromMiddle Englishaqua(“water”),borrowed fromLatinaqua.Perhaps also a learned borrowing directly fromLatin.Doubletofea,Eau,eau,andyeo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/ˈækwə/,/ˈɑːkwə/

• Audio(Southern England):

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• Rhymes:-ækwə,-ɑːkwə

Noun

aqua(countableanduncountable,pluralaquasoraquae)

1. (inorganic chemistry)The compoundwater.
2. A shade ofcolour,usually a mix ofblueandgreensimilar to the colourturquoise.

   aqua:

   • 2009June 27, Patricia Cohen, “Employing Art Along With Ambassadors”, inNew York Times‎^[1]:

     Ms. Rockburne, with help from a team of artists, is working on a gargantuan mural of deep blues, shimmeringaquasand luminous gold leaf that is headed for the American Embassy in Kingston, Jamaica.

   Synonym:aquamarine

Synonyms

• (water):seeThesaurus:water

Related terms

water

• aqua fortis
• aqua regia

Adjective

aqua(comparativemoreaqua,superlativemostaqua)

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
• aquaholic
• aqua jogging
• aqualite
• aqualung
• aquamarine
• aquamation
• aqua mirabilis
• aquanaut
• aquaphobia
• aquaplane
• aqua pumpaginis
• aqua regis
• aquatecture
• Aquaterra
• aqua Tofana
• aqua vitæ
• aqua walking
• aqueous
• aquiculture
• aquifer
• aquitard
• hexaaqua
• hexaaquaaluminium
• methaqualone
• octaqua
• subaqua
• tetraqua

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

FromLatinaquafromProto-Indo-European*h₂ékʷeh₂.CompareVenetanàcua,Italianacqua.

Noun

aqua

1. (Vegliot)water

References

• Ive, A.(1886) “L'antico dialetto di Veglia [The old dialect of Veglia]”, inG. I. Ascoli,editor,Archivio glottologico italiano[Italian linguistic archive], volume 9, Rome: E. Loescher, pages115–187

Ido

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/ˈaku̯a/,/ˈakva/

Adjective

aqua

1. aqueous

Indonesian

Etymology

Agenericized trademarkof the Indonesian trademarkAqua,fromLatinaqua(“water”).

Noun

aqua(first-person possessiveaquaku,second-person possessiveaquamu,third-person possessiveaquanya)

1. (colloquial)bottled water

Synonyms

• air minum dalam kemasan

Interlingua

Noun

aqua(pluralaquas)

1. water

Istriot

Etymology

FromLatinaquafromProto-Indo-European*h₂ékʷeh₂.CompareVenetanàcua,Italianacqua.

Noun

aquaf(pluralaque)

1. water

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Noun

aquaf(pluralaque)

1. (dialectalorarchaic)Alternative form ofacqua(“water”).

References

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

Latin

Alternative forms

• acua
• acqua(Appendix Probi)
• 🜄(alchemy)

Etymology

FromProto-Italic*akʷā,fromProto-Indo-European*h₂ékʷeh₂.Cognate withProto-Germanic*ahwō(“water, stream”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

aquaf(genitiveaquae);first declension

1. water

   aquadulcis―freshwater

   crībrōaquamhaurīre―to drawwaterwith a sieve, to flog a dead horse(proverb)

   Lavō cumaquā―I wash withwater

   • 405CE,Jerome,VulgateGenesis.1.2:

     Terraautemeratinānisetvacua,ettenebraeerant superfaciemabyssī:etspīritusDeīferēbātursuperaquās.

     And the earth was void and empty, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the spirit of God moved over thewaters.

   • 405CE,Jerome,VulgateGenesis.1.6:

     Dīxit quoque Deus fīat firmāmentum in mediō aquārum et dīvidataquāsab aquīs.

     And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide thewatersfrom the waters.

   • 1839[8th centuryCE],Paulus Diaconus,edited by Karl Otfried Müller,Excerpta ex librisPompeii FestiDe significatione verborum,page 2,line14:

     Aquadīcitur, ā quā iuvāmur.

     Wateris called that which sustains us.

Declension

First-declensionnoun.

	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 archaicaquāī.

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
  • Old Lombard:aqua
    • Lombard:ègua,eigua,aigua
    • Gallo-Italic of Sicily:egua,eua
  • Piedmontese:eva,ava
  • Romagnol:aqua,acva
  • Venetan: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,yaue,eve,eaue,aigue,ewe,euwe,egua,ayve,aive
    • Angevin:iau,ève,aive
    • Bourbonnais-Berrichon:iau,aïe,aigue
    • Bourguignon:aoue,ea,aie
    • Champenois:iau,aive
    • Franc-Comtois:âve
    • Gallo:iau,ève,aive
    • Lorrain:auve,aoue,ôve
    • Middle French:eau,eaue
      • French:eau(see there for further descendants)
    • Norman:iâo,iaoue(Guernsey),ieau(Jersey),yo(Sark)
    • Picard:iau,ieu(Amiens)
    • Poitevin-Saintongeais:aeve,égue,éau
    • 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(regional)(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,yacqua,iacqua
  • 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
  • →Esperanto:akvo
    • Ido:aquo

Further reading

• “aqua”,inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary,Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “aqua”,inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary,New York: Harper & Brothers
• aquain Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis(augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• aquainGaffiot, 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”,inHarry Thurston Peck, editor (1898),Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities,New York: Harper & Brothers

Lombard

Etymology

FromLatinaqua.

Noun

aquaf

1. (Old Lombard)water

Descendants

• Lombard:ègua,eigua,aigua
• Gallo-Italic of Sicily:egua,eua

Middle English

Etymology

BorrowedfromLatinaqua.

Noun

aqua(uncountable)

1. water
2. decoction

Descendants

• English:aqua
• Scots:aqua

References

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

Neapolitan

Etymology

InheritedfromLatinaqua.CompareItalianacqua.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

aquaf(pluralaque)

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”– onnavigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it

Venetan

Noun

aquaf

1. Alternative spelling ofacua