aquarius

From aqua (“water”) +‎ -ārius (suffix forming relational adjectives and agent nouns).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /aˈkʷaː.ri.us/, [äˈkʷäːriʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈkwa.ri.us/, [äˈkwäːrius]

aquārius (feminine aquāria, neuter aquārium); first/second-declension adjective

1. of or pertaining to water

First/second-declension adjective.

aquārius m (genitive aquāriī or aquārī); second declension

1. a water carrier
2. the constellations and zodiac sign Aquarius
3. an aqueduct and pipe inspector

Second-declension noun.

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• “aquarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “aquarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• aquarius in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• aquarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.