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English
Etymology
Formed from Latin aqua + -ous (or from Medieval Latin aqueus), partly the analogy of Middle French aqueux (itself actually from Latin aquosus). Or based on the analogy of Latin terreus from terra.
Pronunciation
Adjective
aqueous (comparative more aqueous, superlative most aqueous)
- Of or relating to water.
- (physical chemistry) Consisting mostly of water. Often used in the expression "aqueous solution".
Derived terms
Translations
consisting mainly of water
- Arabic: مَائِيّ (māʔiyy)
- Belarusian: во́дны (vódny), вадзяны́ (vadzjaný), вадзяні́сты (be) (vadzjanísty)
- Bulgarian: воден (bg) (voden)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 水性 (zh) (shuǐxìng)
- Czech: vodný (cs)
- Finnish: vesi- (fi), vesiperäinen, vetinen (fi)
- French: aqueux (fr)
- German: wässrig (de)
- Greek:
- Ancient: ὑδατοειδής (hudatoeidḗs)
- Irish: uiscí (ga)
- Italian: acquoso (it)
- Latvian: ūdeņains
- Malay: berair, akueus
- Manx: ushtoil
- Persian: مائی (fa) (mâ'i), آبی (fa) (âbi)
- Polish: wodny (pl) m, wodnisty (pl)
- Portuguese: aquoso (pt), áqueo
- Romanian: apătos (ro)
- Russian: во́дный (ru) (vódnyj), водяно́й (ru) (vodjanój), водяни́стый (ru) (vodjanístyj)
- Spanish: acuoso (es)
- Tagalog: tubigin, ganhaw
- Turkish: sulu (tr)
- Ukrainian: во́дний (vódnyj), водяни́й (vodjanýj), водяни́стий (vodjanýstyj)
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