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2009 June 27, Patricia Cohen, “Employing Art Along With Ambassadors”, in New York Times:
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.
Ive, A. (1886) “L'antico dialetto di Veglia [The old dialect of Veglia]”, in G. I. Ascoli, editor, Archivio glottologico italiano [Italian linguistic archive], volume 9, Rome: E. Loescher, pages 115–187
^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “aqua”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 48–49
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 and 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, 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