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]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈkwa.ri.us/, [äˈkwäːrius]

Adjective

aquārius (feminine aquāria, neuter aquārium); first/second-declension adjective

1. 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

1. a water carrier
2. the constellations and zodiac sign Aquarius
3. 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
• 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.