aquatic

See also: aquàtic

English

Alternative forms

• aquatick (obsolete)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂ékʷeh₂

Proto-Italic *akʷā

Latin aqua

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos

Proto-Italic *-ātos

Latin -ātus

Proto-Indo-European *-kos

Proto-Indo-European *-ikos

Proto-Italic *-ikos

Latin -icus

Latin -āticus

Latin aquāticusder.

Middle French aquatiquebor.

English aquatic

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

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /əˈkwɑ.tɪk/, /əˈkwæ.tɪk/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˈkwæ.tɪk/, /əˈkwɒ.tɪk/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ɘˈkwɔ.tɘk/

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  Rhymes: -ɒtɪk

The pronunciations with a back vowel are more recent and reflect a long-established tendency to round a historic short-a after /w/.

Adjective

aquatic (comparative more aquatic, superlative most aquatic)

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

Synonyms

• waterly

Hyponyms

• marine
• freshwater, limnic

Coordinate terms

• terrestrial

Derived terms

• antiaquatic
• aquacise
• aquarium
• aquatically
• aquatic ape hypothesis
• aquatic ape theory
• aquatic centre
• aquatic fitness
• aquatic football
• aquatic warbler
• nonaquatic
• periaquatic
• pseudoaquatic
• semiaquatic
• subaquatic

Related terms

• aquativeness (obscure, obsolete)

Translations

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

• Albanian: ujor (sq)
• Arabic: مَائِيّ (māʔiyy)
• Armenian: ջրային (hy) (ǰrayin)
• Azerbaijani: sulu (az)
• Belarusian: во́дны (vódny)
• Bengali: জলজ (bn) (joloj)
• Bulgarian: во́ден (bg) (vóden)
• Catalan: aquàtic (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 水生 (zh) (shuǐshēng)

• Czech: vodní (cs)
• Danish: akvatisk
• Dutch: aquatisch (nl), aquatische (nl)
• Esperanto: akva
• Finnish: vesi-
• French: aquatique (fr)
• Galician: acuático (gl)
• German: Wasser- (de), aquatisch
• Greek: υδατικός (el) (ydatikós) (relating to water), υδρόβιος (el) (ydróvios) (living in or near water)
• Hebrew: מֵימִי (he)
• Hindi: जलज (hi) (jalaj), जलीय (jalīya), जलचर (hi) (jalcar)
• Irish: uisciúil, uiscí (ga)
• Italian: acquatico (it)
• Japanese: 水生 (ja) (すいせい, suisei)
• Korean: 물의 (ko) (murui), 수서 (suseo)
• Latin: aquāticus
• Macedonian: воден (voden)
• Malay: air (ms), akuatik (ms)
• Manx: ushtagh
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: akvatisk (no), (living in water) vannlevende

  Nynorsk: akvatisk

• Odia: ଜଳଚର (or) (jaḷacara)
• Polish: wodny (pl)
• Portuguese: aquático (pt)
• Romanian: acvatic (ro)
• Russian: во́дный (ru) (vódnyj), водяно́й (ru) (vodjanój), аквати́ческий (akvatíčeskij)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: воден

  Latin: voden (sh)

• Slovak: vodný (sk)
• Slovene: voden
• Spanish: acuático (es)
• Swedish: akvatisk (sv)
• Telugu: నీటి (nīṭi)
• Turkish: sucul (tr)
• Ukrainian: во́дний (vódnyj)
• Vietnamese: thuỷ sinh (vi), thuỷ cư

Noun

aquatic (plural aquatics)

1. Any aquatic plant.
   • 1835, Benjamin Maund, The Botanic Garden:

     In such a cistern the present and other hardy aquatics may be grown with success.