aquaticus

Latin

Alternative forms

• 🜄ticus (alchemy)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂ékʷeh₂

Latin aqua

Proto-Italic *-ātos

Latin -ātus

Proto-Italic *-kos

Latin -cus

Latin -icus

Latin -āticus

Latin aquāticus

From aqua +‎ -āticus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /aˈkʷaː.ti.kus/, [äˈkʷäːt̪ɪkʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈkwa.ti.kus/, [äˈkwäːt̪ikus]

Adjective

aquāticus (feminine aquātica, neuter aquāticum); first/second-declension adjective

1. (relational) water; aquatic
2. rainy
3. watery

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	aquāticus	aquātica	aquāticum		aquāticī	aquāticae	aquātica
genitive	aquāticī	aquāticae	aquāticī		aquāticōrum	aquāticārum	aquāticōrum
dative	aquāticō	aquāticae	aquāticō		aquāticīs
accusative	aquāticum	aquāticam	aquāticum		aquāticōs	aquāticās	aquātica
ablative	aquāticō	aquāticā	aquāticō		aquāticīs
vocative	aquātice	aquātica	aquāticum		aquāticī	aquāticae	aquātica

Descendants

• Inherited:
  • Old French: ewiche, ewage, evage, aiguage
    • Picard: ieuiche
    • → Middle English: ewage
• Borrowed:
  • → Catalan: aquàtic
  • → English: aquatic
  • → French: aquatique
  • → Galician: acuático
  • → Italian: acquatico
  • → Portuguese: aquático
  • → Romanian: acvatic
  • → Spanish: acuático
• Translingual:
  • Asellus aquaticus
  • Hyemoschus aquaticus
  • Notiophilus aquaticus
  • Rallus aquaticus
  • Scalopus aquaticus
  • Jacobaea aquatica (syn. Senecio aquaticus)
  • Sylvilagus aquaticus

References

• “aquaticus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “aquaticus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• aquaticus 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)
• aquaticus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “aquaticus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 25: Refonte Apaideutos–Azymus, page 71