aqua

See also: aqua- and àqua

English

Etymology

From Middle English aqua (“water”), borrowed from Latin aqua. Perhaps also learnedly borrowed directly from Latin. Doublet of ea.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈækwə/, /ˈɑkwə/

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

Adjective

aqua (comparative more aqua, superlative most aqua)

1. Of a greenish-blue colour.

   Synonym: aquamarine

Synonyms

• (water): see Thesaurus:water

Derived terms

• aquabib
• aquabis
• aquabob
• aquacade
• aquacise
• aquacrop
• aquaculture
• aquaculturist
• aquadynamic
• aquaerobics
• aqualung
• aquamarine
• aquanaut
• aquapasto
• aquaphobia
• aquaplane
• 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)}

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Ido

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaku̯a/, /ˈakva/

Adjective

aqua

1. aqueous

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Interlingua

Noun

aqua (plural aquas)

1. water

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Interlingue

Noun

1. water

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Istriot

Etymology

From Latin aqua.

Noun

aqua f (plural aque)

1. water

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Italian

Noun

aqua f (plural aque)

1. Obsolete form of acqua.
   1. water

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *akʷā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ékʷeh₂. Cognate with Old English ēa (“flowing water, stream, river”). More at ea.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈa.kʷa/, [ˈäkʷä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.kwa/, [ˈäːkwä]

Noun

aqua f (genitive aquae); first declension

1. water
   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Genesis.1.2:

     Terra autem erat inānis et vacua et tenebrae 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 was moving 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.

   • Aqua dīcitur, ā quā iuvāmur.

     Water is called that by which we are helped.

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 aquai.

Derived terms

• aqua fortis
• aqua rēgia
• aquaeductus
• aqueus
• aquilentus
• aquola
• aquor
• aquālis
• aquārius
• aquāticus
• aquōsus

 

Descendants

• Eastern:
  • Aromanian: apã
  • Istro-Romanian: åpe
  • Megleno-Romanian: apu
  • Romanian: apă
• Franco-Provençal: égoua
• Gallo-Italian:
  • Emilian: âcua
  • Ligurian: aigua, ægoa
  • Lombard: acqua, ègua
  • Piedmontese: eva
  • Romagnol: aqua, acva
  • Venetian: aqua
• Iberian:
  • Navarro-Aragonese: agua
    • Aragonese: augua, aigua
  • Old Leonese: agua
    • Asturian: agua
    • Extremaduran: áugua
    • Leonese: augua
    • Mirandese: auga
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: agua, auga, augua
    • Eonavian: augua
    • Fala: agua
    • Galician: auga
    • Portuguese: água, auga
      • Angolar: awa
      • Annobonese: aua
      • Guinea-Bissau Creole: iagu
      • Indo-Portuguese: ag
      • Kabuverdianu: agu
      • Korlai Creole Portuguese: ag
      • Macanese: águ
      • Kristang: agu
      • Papiamentu: awa
      • Principense: awa
      • Sãotomense: awa
  • Old Spanish: agua
    • Ladino: agua
    • Spanish: agua
      • Chavacano: agua
      • Hiligaynon: agwa
      • Palenquero: agua
• East Iberian:
  • Old Occitan: agua, aigua, aiga
    • Occitan: aiga, aigua
    • Old Catalan: aigua
      • Catalan: aigua
• Italo-Dalmatian:
  • Corsican: acqua
  • Dalmatian: jacqua, ácqua, áqua
  • Gallurese: eva, ea
  • Istriot: aqua
  • Neapolitan: acqua
  • Italian: acqua
  • Sicilian: acqua, iacqua, jacqua
  • Sassarese: eba
  • Tarantino: acqua
• Oïl:
  • Old French: iaue, yaue, euwe, eaue, aigue, ewe, egua
    • Angevin: iau
    • Bourbonnais-Berrichon: aïe, aigue
    • Bourguignon: âoue, eâ, eai, iai, aie
    • Champenois: iau, ève, aigue
    • Franc-Comtois: âve
    • Gallo: iaù
    • Middle French: eaue
      • French: eau
        • Antillean Creole: dlo
        • Guianese Creole: dilo
        • Haitian Creole: dlo
        • Karipúna Creole French: djilo, dlo
        • Louisiana Creole: dolo
        • Mauritian Creole: dilo
        • Seychellois Creole: delo
        • Tayo: delo, dolo
    • Lorrain: aoue
    • Norman: ieau, iâo, iaoue, yo
    • Picard: iau
    • Poitevin-Saintongeais: aive, ève
    • ,
    • Walloon: aiwe
• Rhaetian:
  • Friulian: aghe
  • Ladin: ega (Cazét), aga (Brach)
  • Romansch: aua, ava, ova
• Sabir: agua, lagua
• Southern Romance:
  • Sardinian: abba (Campidanese), àcua (Logudorese), ea
• → English: aqua
• → Constructed:
  • Esperanto: akvo
  • Ido: aquo
  • Interlingua: aqua

References

• “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

Further reading

• “aqua”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press