aquila

See also: Aquila and Áquila

Interlingua

Noun

aquila (plural aquilas)

1. eagle

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin aquila.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.kwi.la/
• Rhymes: -akwila
• Hyphenation: à‧qui‧la

Noun

aquila f (plural aquile)

1. eagle
2. (heraldry) eagle

Derived terms

• aquila arpia
• aquila del Bonelli
• aquila di Haast
• aquila di mare
• aquila di mare a coda bianca
• aquila di mare di Steller
• aquila gigante della Nuova Zelanda
• aquila imperiale
• aquila pescatrice africana
• aquila pescatrice del Madagascar
• aquila reale
• aquila spiegata
• aquila urlatrice
• aquilone

 

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Latin

aquila (eagle)

Etymology

Unknown origin, but probably related to aquilus (“blackish, the color of darkness”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.kʷi.la/, [ˈäkʷɪɫ̪ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.kwi.la/, [ˈäːkwilä]

Noun

aquila f (genitive aquilae); first declension

1. eagle
2. the standard (of an eagle) carried by a Roman legion

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	aquila	aquilae
Genitive	aquilae	aquilārum
Dative	aquilae	aquilīs
Accusative	aquilam	aquilās
Ablative	aquilā	aquilīs
Vocative	aquila	aquilae

Derived terms

• Aquila, the name
• aquilifer
• aquilīnus

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Romanian: aceră
• Italo-Romance:
  • Corsican: acula
  • Italian: aquila
    • → Friulian: acuile
    • → Piedmontese: àquila
    • → Venetian: àquiła
  • Sicilian: àcula, àicula
    • → Maltese: ajkla

• Padanian:
  • Ligurian: àgogia
  • Lombard: àgola, àigula, aguila, ògola
  • Piedmontese: àghia, éula, òja
  • Romagnol: êquila, êcvila
  • Romansch: evla
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: aglle, agllo, élye, élyo
  • Old French: aigle, aille
    • → English: eagle
      • → French: eagle
    • French: aigle
      • → Esperanto: aglo
    • Norman: aiglle, aigl'ye, aigl'ye, aiglle
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Aragonese: alica, aliga
  • Catalan: àguila, àliga
  • Old Occitan: aigla
    • Occitan: agla, aigla

      Gascon: aguilla

      Vivaro-Alpine: eigla

• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturleonese: águila, aiguila, aigla, aila, eila, áliga, éliga, éguila
  • Galician: aguia, aiga
  • Portuguese: águia
  • Spanish: águila
    • → Cebuano: agila
    • → Hiligaynon: agila
    • → Tagalog: agila
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: àbbila, àchili (eagle), achiliera (sea eagle)
• Borrowings:
  • → Lithuanian: Akvilė (girls name), Akvilius (boys name)
  • → Romanian: acvilă
  • → Serbo-Croatian: ȃkvila

Adjective

aquila

1. inflection of aquilus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Adjective

aquilā

1. ablative feminine singular of aquilus

References

• “aquila”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “aquila”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• aquila 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)
• aquila in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• “aquila”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “aquila”, in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• “aquila”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin