aquifuga

Latin

Etymology

From aqua (“water”) +‎ fugiō (“to avoid”), a calque of Ancient Greek φεύγυδρος (pheúgudros), which is otherwise unattested.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /aˈkʷi.fu.ɡa/, [äˈkʷɪfʊɡä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈkwi.fu.ɡa/, [äˈkwiːfuɡä]

Noun

aquifuga m or f (genitive aquifugae); first declension

1. (Late Latin) a hydrophobe

   Synonyms: pheugydrus, hydrophobus, hydrophobicus

   • c. 400 CE, Caelius Aurelianus, Celerum passionum libri III 3.9:Gerhard Benz (ed.), Corpus medicorum latinorum VI 1: Caelii Aureliani celerum passionum libri III, tardarum passionum libri V, Berolini in Aedibus Academiae Scientiarum MCMXC [1990]

     Αliī quoque phobodipson appellant […] Polybus pheugydron […] nōs dēnique aquifugam dīcere poterimus.

     Others use the name φοβόδιψος […] Polybus φεύγυδρος […] In Latin, therefore, we can say aquifuga.

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	aquifuga	aquifugae
genitive	aquifugae	aquifugārum
dative	aquifugae	aquifugīs
accusative	aquifugam	aquifugās
ablative	aquifugā	aquifugīs
vocative	aquifuga	aquifugae

References

• “aquifuga” in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present
• aquifuga in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.