aquatic

English

Alternative forms

• aquatick (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle French aquatique (“living in water”), from Latin aquaticus (“relating to water”), from aqua (“water”)

Pronunciation

• (GenAm) IPA: /əˈkʰwɑɾɪk/
• (RP) IPA: /əˈkʰwɑːtɪk/

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  Rhymes: -ɑːtɪk

Adjective

aquatic (comparative more aquatic, superlative most aquatic)

1. Relating to water; living in or near water, taking place in water.

Synonyms

• waterly

Translations

relating to water; living in or near water, taking place in water

• Arabic: مائي (ar) (māʾī)
• Belarusian: водны (be) (vódny) 
• Bengali: জলজ (bn) (jôlôj)
• Bulgarian: воден (bg) (vóden) 
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 水生 (cmn) (shuǐshēng)

• Czech: vodní (cs)
• Dutch: aquatisch (nl), aquatische (nl)
• Finnish: vesi-
• French: aquatique (fr) m and f
• German: Wasser- (de) (noun-prefix), aquatisch (de)
• Greek: υδρόβιος (el) (ydróvios) 
• Italian: acquatico (it) m, acquatica (it) f
• Japanese: 水生 (ja) (すいせい, suisei)

• Korean: 물의 (ko) (mur-ui)
• Polish: wodny (pl) m
• Portuguese: aquático (pt) m, aquática (pt) f
• Romanian: acvatic (ro)
• Russian: водный (ru) (vódnyj) , водяной (ru) (vodjanój) , акватический (ru) (akvatíčeskij) 
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: воден (sh)

  Roman: voden (sh)

• Slovak: vodný (sk)
• Spanish: acuático (es)
• Swedish: akvatisk (sv)
• Telugu: నీటి (neeTi)
• Ukrainian: водний (uk) (vódnyj)