aqueduct

English

Alternative forms

• aquaeduct
• aquæduct (archaic)

Etymology

Adapted borrowing from Latin aquaeductus (“conveyance of water”), from aqua (“water”) + dūcō (“I lead”, “I bring”); compare the French aqueduc.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈæk.wɪˌdʌkt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈæk.wəˌdʌkt/
• (US, see note) IPA^(key): /ˈɑk.wəˌdʌkt/

• Audio (US):

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Usage notes

The newer IPA^(key): /ˈɑk-/ pronunciation (prescriptive based on the Latin etymology) has been objected to by some commentators.

Noun

aqueduct (plural aqueducts)

1. An artificial channel that is constructed to convey water from one location to another.
2. A structure carrying water over a river or depression, especially an ancient structure.
   • 2017, Kamila Shamsie, Home Fire, Bloomsbury (2018), page 57:

     All the years he’d been down there in the traffic he’d taken this aqueduct for just another bridge, nothing to tell you that canal boats and waterfowl were being carried along above your head.

3. (anatomy) A structure conveying fluid, such as the cerebral aqueduct or vestibular aqueduct.

Derived terms

• aqueductal
• aqueduct of Sylvius
• mesencephalic aqueduct
• periaqueduct
• Sylvian aqueduct

Translations

an artificial channel conveying water

• Afrikaans: akwaduk
• Albanian: ujësjellës (sq) m
• Asturian: acueductu m
• Belarusian: акведу́к m (akvjedúk), аквэду́к m (akvedúk) (taraškievica)
• Bulgarian: акведу́кт m (akvedúkt)
• Catalan: aqüeducte (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 水渠 (zh) (shuǐqú)

• Czech: akvadukt (cs) m
• Danish: akvædukt c
• Dutch: aquaduct (nl) n
• Esperanto: akvedukto
• Finnish: akvedukti (fi)
• French: aqueduc (fr) m
• Galician: levada f, acueduto (gl) m
• Georgian: აკვედუკი (aḳveduḳi)
• German: Aquädukt (de) m
• Greek: υδραγωγείο (el) n (ydragogeío)

  Ancient: ὑδραγώγιον n (hudragṓgion), ὀχετός m (okhetós)

• Hungarian: vízvezeték (hu)
• Indonesian: akueduk (id)
• Italian: acquedotto (it) m
• Japanese: 水道橋 (ja) (suidōkyō)
• Korean: 수도교 (sudogyo)
• Latin: aquaeductus (la) m
• Latvian: ūdensvads m, akvedukts m
• Lithuanian: akvedukas m
• Malay: akueduk
• Malayalam: നീർച്ചാൽ (ml) (nīṟccāl)
• Navajo: tó yaʼnidaʼaazgééd
• Old English: wætergelæt
• Polish: akwedukt (pl) m
• Portuguese: aqueduto (pt) m
• Quechua: witkhu, pincha
• Romanian: apeduct (ro) n
• Russian: акведу́к (ru) m (akvedúk)
• Serbo-Croatian: akvèdukt (sh) m, akvadȕkt (sh) m, vodovod (sh)
• Slovak: akvadukt m
• Spanish: acueducto (es) m
• Sundanese: ᮏᮜᮔ᮪ ᮎᮄ (jalan cai)
• Swedish: akvedukt (sv) c
• Tamil: தொட்டிப் பாலம் (toṭṭip pālam), தொட்டிப்பாலம் (toṭṭippālam)
• Thai: สะพานส่งน้ำ (sà-paan-sòng-náam)
• Tibetan: ཆུ་ཡུར (chu yur), ཡུར་བ (yur ba)
• Turkish: su kemeri (tr)
• Ukrainian: акведу́к (uk) m (akvedúk)
• Volapük: kvaaduk
• Welsh: dyfrbont f, traphont ddŵr f

a structure carrying water

• Asturian: acueductu m
• Bulgarian: акведу́кт m (akvedúkt)
• Catalan: aqüeducte (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 水道 (zh) (shuǐdào), 水路 (zh) (shuǐlù)

• Czech: akvadukt (cs) m
• Dutch: aquaduct (nl) n
• Finnish: akvedukti (fi)
• French: aqueduc (fr) m
• Galician: acueduto (gl) m
• German: Aquädukt (de) m
• Greek: υδραγωγείο (el) n (ydragogeío)
• Hebrew: אַמַּת מַיִם (he) f (amát máyim)
• Hungarian: akvedukt (hu), akvadukt (hu), csatornahíd (hu)
• Italian: acquedotto (it) m
• Japanese: 水道 (ja) (すいどう, suidō)
• Korean: 수도 (ko) (sudo), 수로 (ko) (suro)
• Latin: aquaeductus (la) m
• Latvian: ūdensvads m, akvedukts m
• Malay: akueduk
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: akvedukt (no) m

  Nynorsk: akvedukt m

• Old English: wætergelæt
• Polish: akwedukt (pl) m
• Portuguese: aqueduto (pt) m
• Romanian: apeduct (ro) n
• Russian: акведу́к (ru) m (akvedúk)
• Serbo-Croatian: akvèdukt (sh) m, akvadȕkt (sh) m, vodovod (sh)
• Spanish: acueducto (es) m
• Tibetan: ཆུ་ཡུར (chu yur), ཡུར་བ (yur ba), ཡུར་ཟམ (yur zam)
• Volapük: kvaaduk
• Welsh: pont cario dŵr, traphont

anatomy: a structure conveying fluid, such as the cerebral aqueduct or vestibular aqueduct

• Hungarian: csatorna (hu), zsilip (hu)
• Tibetan: ཆུ་སྦུབ (chu sbub)