aqua

From Middle English aqua (“water”), borrowed from Latin aqua. Perhaps also a learned borrowing directly from Latin. Doublet of ea, Eau, eau, and yeo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈækwə/, /ˈɑːkwə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ækwə, -ɑːkwə

aqua (countable and uncountable, plural aquas or aquae)

1. (inorganic chemistry) The compound water.
2. A shade of colour, usually a mix of blue and green similar to the colour turquoise.

   aqua:  

   • 2009 June 27, Patricia Cohen, “Employing Art Along With Ambassadors”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Ms. Rockburne, with help from a team of artists, is working on a gargantuan mural of deep blues, shimmering aquas and luminous gold leaf that is headed for the American Embassy in Kingston, Jamaica.

   Synonym: aquamarine

• (water): see Thesaurus:water

aqua (comparative more aqua, superlative most aqua)

1. Of a greenish-blue colour.

   Synonym: aquamarine

• jacqua, acqua

From Latin aqua from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ékʷeh₂. Compare Venetan àcua, Italian acqua.

aqua

1. (Vegliot) water

• Ive, A. (1886) “L'antico dialetto di Veglia [The old dialect of Veglia]”, in G. I. Ascoli, editor, Archivio glottologico italiano [Italian linguistic archive], volume 9, Rome: E. Loescher, pages 115–187

• IPA^(key): /ˈaku̯a/, /ˈakva/

aqua

1. aqueous

A genericized trademark of the Indonesian trademark Aqua, from Latin aqua (“water”).

aqua (plural aqua-aqua)

1. (colloquial) bottled water

   Synonym: air minum dalam kemasan

aqua (plural aquas)

1. water

From Latin aqua from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ékʷeh₂. Compare Venetan àcua, Italian acqua.

aqua f (plural aque)

1. water

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.kwa/
• Rhymes: -akwa
• Hyphenation: à‧qua

aqua f (plural aque)

1. (dialectal or archaic) alternative form of acqua (“water”)

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

• acua
• acqua (Appendix Probi)
• 🜄 (alchemy)

From Proto-Italic *akʷā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ékʷeh₂. Cognate with Proto-Germanic *ahwō (“water, stream”).^[1]

The few cognates in other Indo-European branches point to a narrower original meaning of "running water". See Umbrian 𐌖𐌕𐌖𐌓 (utur, “water”), which instead represents a remnant Italic continuation of Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥, the more widespread word for water in Indo-European languages.^[2]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈa.kʷa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈaː.kʷa]
• Note: rarely appears as a three-syllable (e.g. Lucretius DRN.6.1072).

aqua f (genitive aquae); first declension

1. water

   aqua dulcis ― fresh water

   crībrō aquam haurīre ― to draw water with a sieve, to flog a dead horse (proverb)

   Lavō cum aquā ― I wash with water

   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Genesis.1.2:

     Terra autem erat inānis et vacua, et tenebrae erant super faciem abyssī: et spīritus Deī ferēbātur super aquās.

     And the earth was void and empty, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the spirit of God moved over the waters.

   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Genesis.1.6:

     Dīxit quoque Deus fīat firmāmentum in mediō aquārum et dīvidat aquās ab aquīs.

     And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

   • 1839 [8th century CE], Paulus Diaconus, edited by Karl Otfried Müller, Excerpta ex libris Pompeii Festi De significatione verborum, page 2, line 14:

     Aqua dīcitur, ā quā iuvāmur.

     Water is called that which sustains us.

First-declension noun.

• The genitive singular is also archaic aquāī.

• “aqua”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “aqua”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "aqua", 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)
• aqua in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the surface of the water: summa aqua
    
  • to stand out of the water: ex aqua exstare
    
  • the water reaches to the waist: aqua est umbilīco tenus
    
  • the water is up to, is above, the chest: aqua pectus aequat, superat
    
  • to come to the surface: (se) ex aqua emergere
    
  • to draw off water from a river: aquam ex flumine derivare
    
  • to bring a stream of water through the garden: aquam ducere per hortum
    
  • a conduit; an aqueduct: aquae ductus (plur. aquarum ductus)
    
  • running water: aqua viva, profluens (opp. stagnum)
    
  • a perpetual spring: aqua iugis, perennis
    
  • ill-watered: aquae, aquarum inops
    
  • to slake one's thirst by a draught of cold water: sitim haustu gelidae aquae sedare
    
  • to proscribe a person, declare him an outlaw: aqua et igni interdicere alicui
    
• “aqua”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

From Latin aqua.

aqua f

1. (Old Lombard) water

• Lombard: ègua, eigua, aigua
• Gallo-Italic of Sicily: egua, eua

Borrowed from Latin aqua.

aqua (uncountable)

1. water
2. decoction

• English: aqua
• Scots: aqua

• “aqua, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Inherited from Latin aqua. Compare Italian acqua.

• (Naples) IPA^(key): [ˈakwă]
• (Castelmezzano) IPA^(key): [ˈakwə]

aqua f (plural aque)

1. water
2. rain

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1037: “acqua” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it

aqua f

1. alternative spelling of acua