aquosus Latin · revision 32449

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=234–149 BC, Cato|origins=itc-pro *akwā-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [aˈkʷoː.sʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [aˈkʷɔː.s̬us]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''aquōsus''' (feminine aquōsa, neuter aquōsum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|aqua|-ōsus|t1=water]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) De Vaan traces [[m|la|aqua]] to [[itc-pro|*akwā-|t=water]] and compares [[goh|aha|t=water]], but notes that the Italic and Germanic word may have been borrowed from a non-Indo-European language.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and Köbler date it from Cato, who advises planting willow beds in watery places.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It describes places full of water, well watered or wet, and in the superlative Cato speaks of the wettest spot.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Of weather it means rainy: Virgil has a rainy winter and Ovid rain clouds.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Poets also use it of things connected with water or the sea, as Ovid of the sea goddess Thetis, and Horace of the languor of dropsy.^(OLD 2012) Pliny the Elder uses it of juice that is watery or clear as water.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short note that Cicero does not use it.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Oribasius spells it ⟨acosus⟩.^(TLL)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato of watery places.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of a rainy winter.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace of dropsy.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder of watery juice.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Of places, abounding in water, well-watered, [[m|en|wet]], [[m|en|moist]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of weather, [[m|en|rainy]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # Connected with water or the sea; [[m|en|dropsical]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # Watery; clear as water.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[inaquōsus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[aqua]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}