aquarius
See also: Aquarius
Latin
Etymology
From aqua (“water”) + -ārius (suffix forming relational adjectives and agent nouns).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /aˈkʷaː.ri.us/, [äˈkʷäːriʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /aˈkwa.ri.us/, [äˈkwäːrius]
Adjective
aquārius (feminine aquāria, neuter aquārium); first/second-declension adjective
- of or pertaining to water
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | aquārius | aquāria | aquārium | aquāriī | aquāriae | aquāria | |
Genitive | aquāriī | aquāriae | aquāriī | aquāriōrum | aquāriārum | aquāriōrum | |
Dative | aquāriō | aquāriō | aquāriīs | ||||
Accusative | aquārium | aquāriam | aquārium | aquāriōs | aquāriās | aquāria | |
Ablative | aquāriō | aquāriā | aquāriō | aquāriīs | |||
Vocative | aquārie | aquāria | aquārium | aquāriī | aquāriae | aquāria |
Noun
aquārius m (genitive aquāriī or aquārī); second declension
- a water carrier
- the constellations and zodiac sign Aquarius
- an aqueduct and pipe inspector
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | aquārius | aquāriī |
Genitive | aquāriī aquārī1 | aquāriōrum |
Dative | aquāriō | aquāriīs |
Accusative | aquārium | aquāriōs |
Ablative | aquāriō | aquāriīs |
Vocative | aquārie | aquāriī |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
- Balkan Romance:
- Romanian: apar
- Padanian:
- Friulian: agâr
- Italo-Romance:
- Corsican: acquaghju, acquagnu, acquaiu
- Italian: acquaio
- Sicilian: acquaru
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Old French: evier, ewer
- French: évier
- → Middle English: ewer, euer, ewear, ewere, hewer, owere
- English: ewer
- → Ido: eviero
- Old French: evier, ewer
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Catalan: aigüer
- Occitan: aiguièr
- → French: aiguière
- Ibero-Romance:
- Asturian: agüeru
- Galician: agüeiro, augueiro
- Portuguese: agueiro
- Insular Romance:
- Sardinian: abbarzu, abbarju, abbargiu
- Borrowings:
- → Asturian: acuariu
- → Catalan: aquari, aquàrium
- → English: Aquarius, aquarium
- → French: acquarium
- → Galician: acuario
- → Ido: aquario
- → Italian: acquario, Acquario, Aquario
- → Occitan: aqüari
- → Portuguese: aquário
- → Romanian: acvariu
- → Spanish: acuario
- → Swedish: akvarium
References
- “aquarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “aquarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- aquarius 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)
- aquarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette