aigua

• aiga, àuia
• aigo (presumably borrowed from Occitan)

Inherited from Old Catalan aygua~ayga, from Latin aqua, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ekʷeh₂. First attested in 1169.^[1] Compare Occitan aiga, French eau, Spanish agua.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈaj.ɣwə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈaj.ɣwa]

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aigua f (plural aigües)

1. water

• “aigua”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “aigua” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “aigua” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Ultimately from Latin aqua, through Occitan and Gallo-Italic dialects. Doublet of acqua.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaj.ɡwa/
• Rhymes: -ajɡwa
• Hyphenation: ài‧gua

aigua f (uncountable)

1. (literary, obsolete) alternative form of acqua

• aigua in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• agua, aiga

From Latin aqua.

aigua f (oblique plural aiguas, nominative singular aigua, nominative plural aiguas)

1. water

• Occitan: aiga, aigua