acqua

Inherited from Latin aqua (“water”). Cognates include Italian acqua and French eau.

• IPA^(key): /ˈakːʷa/
• Hyphenation: ac‧qua

acqua f (plural acque)

1. water

• “acqua” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

• IPA^(key): /ˈak.kwa/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -akkwa
• Hyphenation: àc‧qua

Inherited from Latin aqua.

• aqua (dialectal or archaic), aqqua (obsolete)

acqua f (plural acque, diminutive acquerèlla or acquétta or acquicèlla or acquolìna)

1. water

   acqua distillata ― distilled water

   Molti pensano che in un impianto di trattamento delle acque reflue entra acqua sporca da una parte e come per magia esce acqua pulita dall’altra.

   A lot of people think that dirty water flows into a sewage treatment plant at one end and clean water magically comes out at the other end.

2. stretch or expanse of water; body of water
3. (rowing) lane

• → Esperanto: akvo
  • Ido: aquo
• → Lombard: acqua

• idraulica
• idraulico
• idratare
• idro-

• acqua in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
• acqua in Collins Italian-English Dictionary

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

acqua

1. inflection of acquare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈak.kʷa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈak.kʷa]

acqua f (genitive acquae); first declension (Late Latin, proscribed)

1. alternative form of aqua
   • [3rd–4th century, Appendix Probi, line 112:

     aqua non acqua

     (The correct form is) aqua, not acqua]

Inherited from Latin aqua (“water”). Cognate with Italian acqua.

• IPA^(key): /ˈakkwa/

acqua f (plural acqu)

1. water
2. (meteorology) rain (condensed water falling from a cloud)

• jacqua

Inherited from Latin aqua (“water”). Cognates include Neapolitan and Italian acqua.

• IPA^(key): /ˈakkwa/

• Audio (Eastern Sicilian):

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• Hyphenation: ac‧qua

acqua f (plural acqua)

1. water
2. (meteorology) rain (condensed water falling from a cloud)

Inherited from Latin aqua. Cognates include Sicilian and Italian acqua.

acqua

1. water

• Domenico Ludovico de Vincentiis, Vocabolario del dialetto tarantino in corrispondenza (1872)