different between watery vs aqua

English

Etymology

From Middle English watery, wattry, from Old English wæteri? (“watery”), from Proto-West Germanic *watar?g. Equivalent to water +? -y.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?w??t??i/, /?w??t?i/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?w?t??i/
• (US, cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA^(key): /?w?t??i/

Adjective

watery (comparative waterier, superlative wateriest)

1. Resembling or characteristic of water.
   • 2005, Robert L. Mott, Radio Sound Effects

     The prop also gave a good watery sound to those early radio rainstorms.

2. Wet, soggy or soaked with water.
3. Diluted or having too much water.
4. (of light) Thin and pale therefore suggestive of water.
5. Weak and insipid.
6. Discharging water or similar substance as a result of disease etc.

   I took my cat to the vet because I was worried about his watery eyes.

7. Tearful.

Synonyms

• (characteristic of water): waterish
  • See also Thesaurus:runny
  • aqueous, aquose
• (soaked with water): drenched, moist, waterlogged; see also Thesaurus:wet
• (having too much water): wishy-washy
• (weak, insipid): bland, flavorless (figuratively); see also Thesaurus:insipid

Derived terms

• unwatery

Translations

Anagrams

• tawery, tawyer

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