# aqua
## English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈækwə/, /ˈɑːkwə/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ækwə, -ɑːkwə

### Noun

aqua (countable and uncountable, plural aquas or aquae)
* (inorganic chemistry) The compound water.
* 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: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

#### Synonyms

* (water): see Thesaurus:water

#### Related terms

* aqua fortis
* aqua regia

### Adjective

aqua (comparative more aqua, superlative most aqua)
* Of a greenish-blue colour.
    Synonym: aquamarine

#### Derived terms

* aqua aerobics
* aqua ammonia
* aqua ammoniae
* aqua aura
* aquabib
* aqua bike
* aquabis
* aquabob
* aquacade
* aquacise
* aquacrop
* aquaculture
* aquaculturist
* aquadynamic
* aquaerobics
* aquaholic
* aqua jogging
* aqualite
* aqualung
* aquamarine
* aquamation
* aqua mirabilis
* aquanaut
* aquaphobia
* aquaplane
* aqua pumpaginis
* aqua regis
* aquatecture
* Aquaterra
* aqua Tofana
* aqua vitæ
* aqua walking
* aqueous
* aquiculture
* aquifer
* aquitard
* hexaaqua
* hexaaquaaluminium
* methaqualone
* octaqua
* subaqua
* tetraqua

### See also

* Alice blue
* aqua
* aquamarine
* azure
* baby blue
* beryl
* bice
* bice blue
* blueberry
* blue green
* blue violet
* cadet blue
* Cambridge blue
* cerulean
* cobalt blue
* Copenhagen blue
* cornflower
* cornflower blue
* cyan
* dark blue
* Dodger blue
* duck-egg blue
* eggshell blue
* electric blue
* gentian blue
* ice blue
* lapis lazuli
* light blue
* lovat
* mazarine
* midnight blue
* navy
* Nile blue
* Oxford blue
* peacock blue
* petrol blue
* powder blue
* Prussian blue
* robin's-egg blue
* royal blue
* sapphire
* saxe blue
* sky blue
* slate blue
* teal
* turquoise
* ultramarine
* Wedgwood blue
* zaffre

## Dalmatian
### Alternative forms

* jacqua, acqua

### Etymology

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

### 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: /ˈaku̯a/, /ˈakva/

### Adjective

aqua
* aqueous

## Indonesian
### Etymology

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

### Noun

aqua (plural aqua-aqua)
* (colloquial) bottled water

#### Synonyms

* air minum dalam kemasan

## Interlingua
### Noun

aqua (plural aquas)
* water

## Istriot
### Etymology

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

### Noun

aqua f (plural aque)
* water

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈa.kwa/
* Rhymes: -akwa
* Hyphenation: à‧qua

### Noun

aqua f (plural aque)
* (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)
* 🜄 (alchemy)

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈa.kʷa/, [ˈäkʷä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈa.kwa/, [ˈäːkwä]
* Note: rarely appears as a three-syllable (e.g. Lucretius DRN.6.1072).

### Noun

aqua f (genitive aquae); 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
** 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.

#### Declension

First-declension noun.
* The genitive singular is also archaic aquāī.

#### Derived terms

* aqua fortis
* aqua rēgia
* aqua vītae
* Aqua, Aquae
* aquaeductus
* aquaemola
* aquagium
* aquāliculus
* aquālis
* aquārium
* aquārius
* aquāticus
* aquātilis
* aquātus
* aqueus
* aquifuga
* aquigenus
* aquilentus
* aquimināle
* aquivergium
* aquola
* aquor
* aquōsus

#### Descendants

* Balkan Romance:
** Aromanian: apã, ape
** Istro-Romanian: åpe
** Megleno-Romanian: apu
** Romanian: apă
* Gallo-Italic
** Emilian: âcua
** Ligurian: aigua, ægoa
** Old Lombard: aqua
*** Lombard: ègua, eigua, aigua
*** Gallo-Italic of Sicily: egua, eua
** Piedmontese: eva, ava
** Romagnol: aqua, acva
** Venetan: àcua
* Gallo-Romance:
** Aragonese: augua, aigua, agua
** Old Catalan: aigua
*** Catalan: aigua
** Old Franco-Provençal: egua, aigua, eva
*** Franco-Provençal: aigoua, aiva, égoua
** Old French: iaue, yaue, eve, eaue, aigue, ewe, euwe, egua, ayve, aive
*** Angevin: iau, ève, aive
*** Bourbonnais-Berrichon: iau, aïe, aigue
*** Bourguignon: aoue, ea, aie
*** Champenois: iau, aive
*** Franc-Comtois: âve
*** Gallo: iau, ève, aive
*** Lorrain: auve, aoue, ôve
*** Middle French: eau, eaue
**** French: eau (see there for further descendants)
*** Norman: iâo, iaoue (Guernsey), ieau (Jersey), yo (Sark)
*** Picard: iau, ieu (Amiens)
*** Poitevin-Saintongeais: aeve, égue, éau
*** Walloon: aiwe
** Old Occitan: agua, aigua, aiga
* Ibero-Romance:
** Navarro-Aragonese: agua
** Old Leonese: agua
*** Asturian: agua
*** Extremaduran: áugua
*** Leonese: augua
*** Mirandese: auga
** Old Galician-Portuguese: agua, auga, augua
*** Fala: agua
*** Galician: auga, agua
*** Portuguese: água, auga (regional) (see there for further descendants)
** Old Spanish: agua
*** Ladino: agua / אגוה
*** Spanish: agua (see there for further descendants)
*** → Sabir: agua, lagua
* Italo-Dalmatian
** Corsican: acqua
** Dalmatian: jacqua, acqua, aqua, yacqua, iacqua
** Gallurese: ea, eva
** Istriot: aqua
** Italian: acqua
*** → Lombard: acqua
** Neapolitan: aqua
    Tarantino: acqua
** Sassarese: eba
** Sicilian: acqua, iacqua, jacqua
* Rhaeto-Romance:
** Friulian: aghe
** Ladin: ega (Cazét), aga (Brach)
** Romansch: aua, ava, ova
* Sardinian:
** Campidanese: àcua
** Logudorese: abba
** Nuorese: abba
* Borrowings:
** → Middle English: aqua
*** English: aqua
*** Scots: aqua
** → Esperanto: akvo
*** Ido: aquo

### References

* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “aqua”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 48–49

### 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, 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

## Lombard
### Etymology

From Latin aqua.

### Noun

aqua f
* (Old Lombard) water

#### Descendants

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

## Middle English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin aqua.

### 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 Latin aqua. Compare Italian acqua.

### Pronunciation

* (Naples) IPA: [ˈakwă]
* (Castelmezzano) IPA: [ˈakwə]

### Noun

aqua f (plural aque)
* 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

## Venetan
### Noun

aqua f
* Alternative spelling of acua