Fromaqua(“water”) +-ārius(suffix forming relational adjectives and agent nouns).
aquārius (feminineaquāria,neuteraquārium);first/second-declension adjective
- of or pertaining towater
First/second-declension adjective.
aquārius m (genitiveaquāriīoraquārī);second declension
- awater carrier
- the constellations and zodiac signAquarius
- anaqueduct andpipeinspector
Second-declension noun.
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
- Balkano-Romance:
- Italo-Romance:
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Southern Gallo-Romance (viaVulgar Latin*aquāria):
- Ibero-Romance:
- Insular Romance:
- Borrowings:
- “aquarius”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “aquarius”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "aquarius", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- aquarius inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.