aquatic

aquatic

See also: aquàtic

English

Alternative forms

• aquatick (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French aquatique (“living in water”), from Latin aquaticus (“relating to water”), from aqua (“water”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ə.ˈkwɑ.tɪk/, /ə.ˈkwæ.tɪk/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ə.ˈkwæ.tɪk/, /ə.ˈkwɒ.tɪk/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ɘ.ˈkwɔ.tɘk/

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  Rhymes: -ɒtɪk

The pronunciations with a back vowel are more recent and reflect a long-established tendency to round a historic short-a after IPA^(key): /w/.[1]

Adjective

aquatic (comparative more aquatic, superlative most aquatic)

1. Relating to water; living in or near water, taking place in water.

Synonyms

• waterly

Hyponyms

• marine

Derived terms

• aquatic centre
• aquatic fitness
• aquatic warbler
• semiaquatic

 

Related terms

• aquativeness (obscure, obsolete)

Translations

relating to water; living in or near water, taking place in water

Arabic: مَائِيّ‎ (māʾiyy) Armenian: ջրային (hy) (ǰrayin) Azerbaijani: sulu (az) Belarusian: во́дны (vódny) Bengali: জলজ (bn) (jôlôjô) Bulgarian: во́ден (bg) (vóden) Catalan: aquàtic (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 水生 (zh) (shuǐshēng) Czech: vodní (cs) Danish: akvatisk Dutch: aquatisch (nl), aquatische (nl) Esperanto: akva Finnish: vesi- French: aquatique (fr) Galician: acuático (gl) German: Wasser- (de), aquatisch Greek: υδρόβιος (el) (ydróvios) Hebrew:מֵימִי‎ Hindi: जलज (hi) (jalaj), आबी (hi) (ābī) Italian: acquatico (it) Japanese: 水生 (ja) (すいせい, suisei) Korean: 물의 (ko) (murui), 수서 (suseo) Latin: aquāticus Macedonian: воден (voden) Malay: air (ms), akuatik (ms) Manx: ushtagh Norwegian: Bokmål: akvatisk (no), (living in water) vannlevende Nynorsk: akvatisk Oriya: ଜଳଚର (or) (jôḷôcôrô) Polish: wodny (pl) Portuguese: aquático (pt) Romanian: acvatic (ro) Russian: во́дный (ru) (vódnyj), водяно́й (ru) (vodjanój), аквати́ческий (akvatíčeskij) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: воден Roman: voden (sh) Slovak: vodný (sk) Slovene: voden Spanish: acuático (es) Swedish: akvatisk (sv) Telugu: నీటి (nīṭi) Turkish: sucul (tr) Ukrainian: во́дний (vódnyj) Vietnamese: ở nước, thuỷ cư

Noun

aquatic (plural aquatics)

1. Any aquatic plant.
   • 1835, Benjamin Maund, The Botanic Garden:

     In such a cistern the present and other hardy aquatics may be grown with success.

References

1. https://books.google.com/books?id=dfYBKFjf-2cC&pg=PA129&dq=aquatic+pronunciation&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=aquatic%20&f=false