AQUAとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈækwə/, /ˈɑːkwə/
• 韻: -ækwə, -ɑːkwə

名詞

aqua (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 aquas または aquae)

1. (inorganic chemistry) The compound water.
2. A shade of colour, usually a mix of blue and green similar to the colour turquoise.

   aqua:  

   • 2009 June 27, Patricia Cohen, “Employing Art Along With Ambassadors”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Ms. Rockburne, with help from a team of artists, is working on a gargantuan mural of deep blues, shimmering aquas and luminous gold leaf that is headed for the American Embassy in Kingston, Jamaica.

   Synonym: aquamarine

同意語

• (water): see Thesaurus:water

関連する語

形容詞

aqua (comparative more aqua, superlative most aqua)

1. Of a greenish-blue colour.

   Synonym: aquamarine

派生語

参考

• (blues) blue; Alice blue, aqua, aquamarine, azure, baby blue, beryl, bice, bice blue, blue green, blue violet, blueberry, cadet blue, Cambridge blue, cerulean, cobalt blue, Copenhagen blue, cornflower, cornflower blue, cyan, dark blue, Dodger blue, duck-egg blue, eggshell blue, electric-blue, gentian blue, ice blue, lapis lazuli, light blue, lovat, mazarine, midnight blue, navy, Nile blue, Oxford blue, peacock blue, petrol blue, powder blue, Prussian blue, robin's-egg blue, royal blue, sapphire, saxe blue, slate blue, sky blue, teal, turquoise, ultramarine, Wedgwood blue, zaffre ^{(Category: en:Blues)}

Latin

別の表記

• acua
• acqua (Appendix Probi)

語源

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂ékʷeh₂. Cognate with Proto-Germanic *ahwō (“water, stream”).^[1]

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.kʷa/, [ˈäkʷä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.kwa/, [ˈäːkwä]
• Note: rarely appears as a three-syllable (e.g. Lucretius DRN.6.1072).

名詞

aqua f (genitive aquae); first declension

1. water

   aqua dulcis ― fresh water

   crībrō aquam haurīre ― to draw water with a sieve, to flog a dead horse (proverb)

   Lavō cum aquā ― I wash with water

   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Genesis.1.2:

     Terra autem erat inānis et vacua, et tenebrae erant super faciem abyssī: et spīritus Deī ferēbātur super aquās.

     And the earth was void and empty, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the spirit of God moved over the waters.

   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Genesis.1.6:

     Dīxit quoque Deus fīat firmāmentum in mediō aquārum et dīvidat aquās ab aquīs.

     And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

   • 8th century CE, Paulus Diaconus, Karl Otfried Müller, editor, Excerpta ex libris Pompeii Festi De significatione verborum, page 2:

     Aqua dīcitur, ā quā iuvāmur.

     Water is called that which sustains us.

語形変化

First-declension noun.

• The genitive singular is also archaic aquāī.

派生語

派生した語

参照

Further reading

• “aqua”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “aqua”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• aqua in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius かつ others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• aqua in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the surface of the water: summa aqua
    
  • to stand out of the water: ex aqua exstare
    
  • the water reaches to the waist: aqua est umbilīco tenus
    
  • the water is up to, is above, the chest: aqua pectus aequat, superat
    
  • to come to the surface: (se) ex aqua emergere
    
  • to draw off water from a river: aquam ex flumine derivare
    
  • to bring a stream of water through the garden: aquam ducere per hortum
    
  • a conduit; an aqueduct: aquae ductus (plur. aquarum ductus)
    
  • running water: aqua viva, profluens (opp. stagnum)
    
  • a perpetual spring: aqua iugis, perennis
    
  • ill-watered: aquae, aquarum inops
    
  • to slake one's thirst by a draught of cold water: sitim haustu gelidae aquae sedare
    
  • to proscribe a person, declare him an outlaw: aqua et igni interdicere alicui
    
• “aqua”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

派生語

関連する語

• aquarium
• aquatic