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English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ækw?/, /???kw?/

Noun

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.

   Synonym: aquamarine

Synonyms

• (water): see Thesaurus:water

Related terms

Adjective

aqua (comparative more aqua, superlative most aqua)

1. Of a greenish-blue colour.

   Synonym: aquamarine

Derived terms

See also

• (blues) blue; Alice blue, aqua, aquamarine, azure, baby blue, beryl, bice, bice blue, blue green, blue violet, blueberry, 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, slate blue, sky blue, teal, turquoise, ultramarine, Wedgwood blue, zaffre ^{(Category: en:Blues)}

Ido

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?aku?a/, /?akva/

Adjective

aqua

1. aqueous

Indonesian

Etymology

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

Noun

aqua (first-person possessive aquaku, second-person possessive aquamu, third-person possessive aquanya)

1. (colloquial) bottled water

Synonyms

• air minum dalam kemasan

Interlingua

Noun

aqua (plural aquas)

1. water

Istriot

Etymology

From Latin aqua.

Noun

aqua f (plural aque)

1. water

Italian

Noun

aqua f (plural aque)

1. Obsolete form of acqua.
   1. water

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *ak??, from Proto-Indo-European *h?ék?eh?. Cognate with Gothic ???????????? (a?a, “river”), English ea.

Alternative forms

• acua
• acqua (Appendix Probi)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?a.k?a/, [?äk?ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?a.kwa/, [???kw?]
• Note: rarely appears as a three-syllable (e.g. Lucretius DRN.6.1072).

Noun

aqua f (genitive aquae); first declension

1. water
   • 8th C. C.E., Paulus Diaconus (author), Karl Otfried Müller (editor), Excerpta ex libris Pompeii Festi De significatione verborum (1839), page 2, line 14:

Declension

First-declension noun.

• The genitive singular is also archaic aqu??.

Derived terms

Descendants

References

• 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, 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

Further reading

• aqua in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

English

Etymology

From Middle English ea, eo (with spelling influenced by very distant cognate French eau), from Old English ?a (“running water, water, stream, river”), from Proto-Germanic *ahw? (“waters, river”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?ek?eh? (“water, flowing water”). Doublet of aqua. Compare ea, yeo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ju?/
• Homophones: ewe, u, yew, you (in almost all dialects)
• Homophones: hew, hue, Hugh (in h-dropping dialects)
• Rhymes: -??

Proper noun

eau

1. (Lincolnshire toponymy) Misspelling of Eau

Related terms

• ea
• Eau
• yeo

Anagrams

• EUA, U.A.E., UAE, UEA, Uea

Bariai

Etymology

From Proto-Ngero *i-om (compare Malalamai yu), although the precise form of this word, like Kove and Lusi veao, is unexplained.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?e?u/, [?e??u?]

Noun

eau

1. water

Derived terms

• eau-eai (“in the water”) /e?u.e?i/, [?e??u?.i??i?]

References

• Steve Gallagher, Peirce Baehr, Bariai Grammar Sketch (2005)

French

Etymology

From Middle French eau, eaue, from Old French ewe, euwe, egua (“water”), from Latin aqua (“water”), from Proto-Italic *ak??, from Proto-Indo-European *h?ek?eh? (“water, flowing water”). Cognate with Old English ?a (“flowing water, stream, river”). More at ea.

See cognates in regional languages in France : Angevin ieau, Bourbonnais-Berrichon aigue or aïe, Bourguignon eâ, Champenois ève or 'aive, Franc-Comtois âve, Gallo iau, Lorrain aoue, Norman iâo, Orléanais iau, Picard ieu, Poitevin-Saintongeais ève, Tourangeau iau, Franco-Provençal égoua and éva, Occitan aiga, Catalan aigua, Corsican acqua.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o/
• Rhymes: -o
• Homophones: au, aux, aulx, eaux, haut, hauts, ho, o, ô, oh, os

Noun

eau f (plural eaux)

1. Water, a liquid that is transparent, colorless, odorless, and tasteless in its pure form, the primary constituent of lakes, rivers, seas, and oceans.
   • 1951, First Congress on Irrigation and Drainage. Transactions. vol. 2, page 149.

     L'alteration de l?eau du lac par l'effect des courants du fond vers la surface semble s'expliquer par le fait, que le courant à densité avait une temperature plus élevée que les couches inférieures et moyennes du lac.

     The alteration of the lake's 'water by the effect of the current from the bottom to the surface seems to be explained by the fact that the density current had a higher temperature than the inferior and medium layers of the lake.

2. In particular, rain.

3. (chemistry) The chemical compound with empirical formula H₂O existing in the form of ice, liquid water or steam.

4. Natural liquid quantities or expanses.

5. Fluids such as sweat, formed and found in the body of man or animal.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Antillean Creole: dlo
• Guianese Creole: dilo
• Haitian Creole: dlo
• Karipúna Creole French: djilo, dlo
• Louisiana Creole French: dolo
• Mauritian Creole: dilo
• Seychellois Creole: delo
• Tayo: delo, dolo

Further reading

• “eau” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Alternative forms

• eaue

Etymology

From Old French euwe, ewe, egua, from Latin aqua.

Noun

eau f (plural eaus or eaux)

1. water

Descendants

• French: eau
  • Antillean Creole: dlo
  • Guianese Creole: dilo
  • Haitian Creole: dlo
  • Karipúna Creole French: djilo, dlo
  • Louisiana Creole French: dolo
  • Mauritian Creole: dilo
  • Seychellois Creole: delo
  • Tayo: delo, dolo

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun) jau
• (Sursilvan) jeu
• (Sutsilvan) jou
• (Surmiran) ia
• (Vallader) eu

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *eo, from Latin ego, from Proto-Indo-European *é?h?.

Pronoun

eau

1. (Puter) I