Water Bearer

English

Etymology

Calque of Latin Aquarius.

Proper noun

the Water Bearer

1. (astronomy, astrology) The constellation and zodiacal sign Aquarius.
   • 1862, [Frances Rolleston], Mazzaroth, or, The Constellations, London: Rivingtons, page 85:

     The constellation Pegasus, the horse, whose head joins that of Aquarius, the water-bearer, accounts for the fable that Neptune assumed the figure of a horse, and for horses being sacrificed to him.

   • 1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 146:

     It was a stone cherub pouring water from an urn, the sign of Aquarius, the Water Bearer!