Lemma 1aqua

nounfeminine

water; sea, lake; river, stream; rain, rainfall (pl.), rainwater; spa; urine

Morphology3 analyses

nominative singularaqu + a · regular

vocative singularaqu + a · regular

ablative singularaqu + a · regular

Lewis & Short

key · aquaFull entry

ăqua, ae, f., dat. [cf. Sanscr. ap = water; Wallach. apa, and Goth. ahva = river; old Germ. Aha; Celt. achi; and the Gr. proper names and, and the Lat. Apuli, Apiola; prob. ultimately con. with Sanscr. ācus = swift, ācer, and, from the notion of quickly, easily moving. Curtius.]

I.1, 454 et saep.; poët. ap.; the aquaï also was used acc. to; Lachm.

II.Water, in its most gen. signif. (as an element, rainwater, river-water, sea-water, etc.; in class. Lat. often plur. to denote several streams, springs, in one place or region, and com. plur. in Vulg. O. T. after the Hebrew): SI. AQVA. PLVVIA. NOCET, Fragm. of the XII. Tab. ap.; cf., and; aquae nivis, snow-water, ib. Job, 9, 30; and plur.: dulcis, fresh-water, Fr. eau douce; and plur.: marina, sea-water (v. also salsus, amarus); and plur.; and plur.; and plur.; so, stativae aquae, Varr. ap.; and absol.: aqua fervens, boiling-water; and absol.: aqua decocta, water boiled and then cooled with ice or snow; and absol.

B.Particular phrases.

1.Praebere aquam, to invite to a feast, to entertain (with ref. to the use of water at table for washing and drinking), (cf. ).

2.Aquam aspergere alicui, to give new life or courage, to animate, refresh, revive (the fig. taken from sprinkling one who is in a swoon).

3.Aqua et ignis, to express the most common necessaries of life. — Hence aquā et igni interdicere alicui, to deny intercourse or familiarity with one, to exclude from civil society, to banish; the bride, on the day of marriage, received from the bridegroom aqua et ignis, as a symbol of their union: aquā et igni tam interdici solet damnatis quam accipiunt nuptae, videlicet quia hae duae res humanam vitam maxime continent, Paul. ex Müll. (this custom is differently explained in ): aquam et terram petere, of an enemy (like ), to demand submission. — Provv.

a.Ex uno puteo similior numquam potis Aqua aquaï.

b.In aquā scribere =, to write in water, of something transient, useless: (cf. Keats' epitaph on himself: here lies one whose name was writ in water; and the Germ., etwas hinter die Feueresse schreiben).

III.Water, in a more restricted sense.

A.The sea. — Trop.: Venimus in portum. Naviget hinc aliā jam mihi linter aquā, in other waters let my bark now sail cf. Milton in the Lycidas.

B.= la. cus, a lake.

C.A stream, a river. in Tuscae gurgite mersus aquae, i. e. Albula.

D.Rain.

E.In the plur., medicinal springs, waters, baths.

1.In gen.: Müll. — Hence.

2.As prop. noun, Waters. Some of the most important were.

a.ăquae ăpollĭnāres, in Etruria, prob. the Phoebi vada of, now Bagni di Stigliano, Tab. Peut.

b.ăquae Aurēlĭae, in the Black Forest in Germany, now Baden-Baden, Inscr.

c.ăquae Baiae, in Campania; earlier called ăquae Cūmānae.

d.ăquae Călĭdae.

(a).In Britain, now Bath; also called ăquae Sōlis, Itin Anton.

(b).In Zeugitana on the Gulf of Carthage, now Hammam Gurbos.

e.ăquae Cĭcĕrōnĭānae, at Cicero's villa at Puteoli.

f.ăquae Mattĭăcae, among the Mattiaci in Germany, now Wiesbaden, also called Fontes Mattĭăci in.

g.ăquae Sextĭae, near Massilia, once a famous watering-place, now Aix, Liv Epit 61.

h.ăquae Tauri or Tau-ri Thermae, in Etruria, now Bagni di Ferrata. V. Smith, Dict. Geog., s. v. Aquae.

IV.The water in the water-clock. From the use of this clock in regulating the length of speeches, etc. (cf. clepsydra), arose the tropical phrases.

(a).Aquam dare, to give the advocate time for speaking.

(b).Aquam perdere, to spend time unprofitably, to waste it.

(g).Aqua haeret, the water stops, i.e. I am at a loss.

V.Aqua intercus, the water under the skin of a dropsical person — Trop.: aquam in animo habere intercutem, Lucil. ap.

VI.Aqua, the name of a constellation, Gr.: (as translation of )