From Latinaqua from Proto-Indo-European*h₂ékʷeh₂. Compare Venetianàcua, Italianacqua.
Noun
aqua
(Vegliot) water
References
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
Ido
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈaku̯a/, /ˈakva/
Adjective
aqua
aqueous
Indonesian
Etymology
A genericized trademark of the Indonesian trademark Aqua, from Latinaqua(“water”).
Noun
aqua (first-person possessiveaquaku, second-person possessiveaquamu, third-person possessiveaquanya)
(colloquial) bottled water
Synonyms
air minum dalam kemasan
Interlingua
Noun
aqua (pluralaquas)
water
Istriot
Etymology
From Latinaqua from Proto-Indo-European*h₂ékʷeh₂. Compare Venetianàcua, Italianacqua.
Noun
aquaf (pluralaque)
water
Italian
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈa.kwa/
Rhymes: -akwa
Hyphenation: à‧qua
Noun
aquaf (pluralaque)
(dialectal or archaic)Alternative form of acqua(“water”).
References
acqua in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin
Alternative forms
acua
acqua(Appendix Probi)
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European*h₂ékʷeh₂. Cognate with Proto-Germanic*ahwō(“water, stream”).
Note: rarely appears as a three-syllable (e.g. Lucretius DRN.6.1072).
Noun
aquaf (genitiveaquae); first declension
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
Declension
First-declension noun.
The genitive singular is also archaic aquāī.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
Further reading
“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.
“aqua”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
Middle English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latinaqua.
Noun
aqua (uncountable)
water
decoction
Descendants
English: aqua
Scots: aqua
References
“aqua, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Neapolitan
Etymology
Inherited from Latinaqua. Compare Italianacqua.
Pronunciation
(Naples) IPA(key): [ˈakwă]
(Castelmezzano) IPA(key): [ˈakwə]
Noun
aquaf (pluralaque)
water
rain
References
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