aquarius Latin · revision 33922

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [aˈkʷaː.ri.ʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [aˈkʷaː.ri.us]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''aquārius''' (feminine aquāria, neuter aquārium); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|aqua|-ārius|t1=water]]; the noun is the adjective used of a person.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|aqua]] to [[itc-pro|*akwā-|t=water]], with a Germanic cognate in [[goh|aha|t=river]], and thinks the shared Italic and Germanic word may have been borrowed from a non-Indo-European language.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Cato uses the adjective first, of water jugs and of a wheel for drawing water.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ As an adjective it means for or of water: Cato has water jugs, Varro a water vessel, and ''rēs aquāria'' is the water supply.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero names the ''prōvincia aquāria'', the charge of the public waterworks;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Vitruvius speaks of water levels, instruments that work with water.^(OLD 2012) As a noun it is a servant who carried water for the household, in Juvenal and the jurists,^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) and a workman or overseer of the public water supply: Caelius, writing to Cicero, speaks of fighting with shopkeepers and water-men.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is also the constellation and sign of the Water-carrier, the Greek Ὑδροχόος: Varro says spring begins with the sun in Aquarius, Cicero names it in his Aratus, and Horace has Aquarius saddening the inverted year.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) The neuter noun ''aquārium'' is a watering place for cattle in Cato.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Etymonline) Niermeyer gives the medieval sense "ewer".^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato of water jugs.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro of the zodiac sign.^(OLD 2012)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of the charge of the waterworks.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * late Old English – The name of the constellation [[m|en|Aquarius]] appears in English.^(Etymonline)

+ * 1830 – The English [[m|en|aquarium]] is formed from the neuter of the adjective.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Of or for [[m|en|water]];^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) ''rēs aquāria'', the water supply;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) ''prōvincia aquāria'', the charge of the public waterworks.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(of instruments)'' Working with water.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # A servant who supplied water, a [[m|en|water carrier]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A workman or overseer of the public water supply, an inspector of [[m|en|conduit|alt=conduits]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(astronomy)'' The constellation and sign of the [[m|en|zodiac]] [[m|en|Aquarius]], the Water-carrier.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A ewer.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[aquāriolus]]

+ * [[aquārium]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[aqua]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}