aquatio

Latin

Etymology

From aquor +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /aˈkʷaː.ti.oː/, [äˈkʷäːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈkwat.t͡si.o/, [äˈkwät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

aquātiō f (genitive aquātiōnis); third declension

1. the getting or fetching of water
2. watering; watering place
3. rains

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	aquātiō	aquātiōnēs
genitive	aquātiōnis	aquātiōnum
dative	aquātiōnī	aquātiōnibus
accusative	aquātiōnem	aquātiōnēs
ablative	aquātiōne	aquātiōnibus
vocative	aquātiō	aquātiōnēs

Descendants

• Gallo-Romance:
  • Franc-Comtois: ovizõ (“downpour”), avẹzõ
  • Lorrain: ave̢žõ (“inundation”)
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: acquazzone, guazzo (from the nominative aquātiō; borrowed from Gallo-Italic)
    • → French: gouache
      • → English: gouache
  • Sicilian: acquazzuni
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Romansch: auazun

References

• “aquatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “aquatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• aquatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “aquatio”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 25: Refonte Apaideutos–Azymus, page 72