aquiline

English

WOTD – 11 November 2006

Aquiline

Etymology

From Latin aquilīnus, from aquila (“eagle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæk.wɪ.laɪn/

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Adjective

aquiline (comparative more aquiline, superlative most aquiline)

1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of eagles; resembling that of an eagle.

   Synonym: eaglelike

   Frank's aquiline nose jutted out from underneath his glasses.

   • 1748, [Tobias Smollett], chapter 22, in The Adventures of Roderick Random. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] [William Strahan] for J. Osborn […], →OCLC:

     He was about the age of two-and-twenty, among the tallest of the middle size; had chestnut-coloured hair, which he wore tied up in a ribbon; a high polished forehead, a nose inclining to the aquiline, lively blue eyes, red pouting lips, teeth as white as snow, and a certain openness of countenance—but why need I describe any more particulars of his person?

   • 1791, Edmund Burke, Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs‎^[1], London: J. Dodsley, pages 139–140:

     Think of a genius not born in every country or every time: a man gifted by Nature with a penetrating, aquiline eye; with a judgment prepared with the most extensive erudition; with an herculean robustness of mind, and nerves not to be broken with labour; a man who could spend twenty years in one pursuit.

   • 1903 September 26, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Empty House”, in The Return of Sherlock Holmes, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., published February 1905, →OCLC:

     Holmes looked even thinner and keener than of old, but there was a dead-white tinge in his aquiline face which told me that his life recently had not been a healthy one.

   • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 11, in The Line of Beauty […], 1st US edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 283:

     […] Wani, whose smooth sleekness had been part of his charm, seemed to Nick to grow leaner and ever more aquiline.

Derived terms

• aquilinely
• aquilineness
• aquiline nose
• aquilinity

 

Translations

of, pertaining to, or characteristic of eagles

• Bulgarian: орлов (bg) (orlov)
• Catalan: aguilenc, aquilí
• Esperanto: agla, agleca
• French: aquilin (fr)
• Georgian: არწივისებრი (arc̣ivisebri), კეხიანი (ḳexiani)
• German: adlerhaft, Adler- (prefix)
• Greek: αετίσιος (el) (aetísios)
• Hungarian: sas- (hu), sasszerű, horgas (hu)
• Italian: aquilino (it) m
• Manx: croymmagh, shawkagh, urleydagh
• Occitan: agulin
• Polish: orli (pl) m
• Portuguese: aquilino (pt)
• Russian: орли́ный (ru) (orlínyj)
• Slovak: orlí
• Spanish: aguileño (es)
• Swedish: örn-, örnlik
• Ukrainian: орли́ний (uk) (orlýnyj)
• Volapük: kvilik

Anagrams

• quiniela

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ki.lin/
• Homophone: aquilines

Adjective

aquiline

1. feminine singular of aquilin

Italian

Adjective

aquiline

1. feminine plural of aquilino

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /a.kʷiˈliː.ne/, [äkʷɪˈlʲiːnɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a.kwiˈli.ne/, [äkwiˈliːne]

Adjective

aquilīne

1. vocative masculine singular of aquilīnus