aquatic

See also: aquàtic

English

Alternative forms

• aquatick (obsolete)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈkwɑ.tɪk/, /əˈkwæ.tɪk/
• IPA^(key): /əˈkwɒ.tɪk/, /əˈkwæ.tɪk/
• IPA^(key): /ɘˈkwɔ.tɘk/

• Audio (US):

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  Rhymes: -ɒtɪk

Usage notes

The pronunciations with a back vowel are more recent and reflect a long-established tendency to round a historic short-a after IPA^(key): /w/.

Adjective

aquatic (comparative more aquatic, superlative most aquatic)

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

Synonyms

• waterly

Related terms

• aquativeness (obscure, obsolete)

Translations

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

• Arabic: مَائِيّ (māʔiyy)
• Belarusian: во́дны (vódny)
• Bengali: জলজ (jôlôj)
• 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) (noun-prefix), aquatisch
• Greek: υδρόβιος (el) (ydróvios)
• Hebrew:מֵימִי
• Interlingue:
• Italian: acquatico (it)
• Japanese: 水生 (ja) (すいせい, suisei)
• Korean: 물의 (ko) (mur-ui), 수서 (sooseo)
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• Latin: aquāticus
• Malay: air (ms), akuatik (ms)
• Manx: ushtagh
• Norwegian:

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

  Nynorsk: akvatisk

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

  Cyrillic: воден

  Roman: voden (sh)

• Slovak: vodný (sk)
• Spanish: acuático (es)
• Swedish: akvatisk (sv)
• Telugu: నీటి (nīṭi)
• Ukrainian: во́дний (vódnyj)
• Vietnamese: ở nước, 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.