water (subs.) Copy link Outline 1. ăqua (usual word)2. lĭquor (any liquid)3. lătex, ĭcis, m. (any liquid)4. lympha (esp. pure spring w.)5. unda (a wave) • water (subs.): 1. ăqua (usual word): out of earth comes w., out of w. air, ex terra aqua, ex aqua oritur aer, Cic. N. D. 2, 33, 84; sea w., a. marina, Cic.: salt w., fresh w., a. salsa, dulcis, Lucr, 6, 891: river w., a. fluvialis, Virg.: Col.: rain w., a. pluvia, pluvialis, caelestis, Cic.: Virg.: Hor.: running w., a. viva, Varr.: a spring of flowing w., jugis aquae fons, Hor. Sat. 2, 6, 2: standing w., a. stagnans, Plin.: aquae in plur. of a collection of w.: a vast body of w. comes from heaven, immensum coelo venit agmen aquarum, Virg. G. 1, 322: there were floods of w. twice in that year, aquae magnae bis eo anno fuerunt, Liv. 24, 9: unfailing streams of w., perennes aquae, Cic. Verr. 4, 48, 107: also of the w.s of a seaside place, medicinal springs, etc.: to come for the w.s, venire ad aquas, Cic. Planc. 27, 65 (hence names of places, Aquae Sextiae, etc.). 2. lĭquor (any liquid): the intervening w., medius liquor, Hor. Od. 3, 3, 46. 3. lătex, ĭcis, m. (any liquid): sea w., l. marinus, Ov. Pont. 3, 1, 17: the w.s of Avernus, latices Averni, Virg. Aen. 4, 512. 4. lympha (esp. pure spring w.): the w. of the wells, lymphae puteales, Lucr. 6, 1172: w. of a river, l. fluvialis, Virg. Aen. 4, 635. 5. unda (a wave): snow w., undae nivales, Mart. 14, 118, 1: a spring transparent with w., fons pellucidus unda, Ov. M. 3, 161. These last four words are poetic; and in poetry other equivalents for water may stand: e. g. amnis, lacus, mare, aequor, fluctus, etc., according to the requirements of the passage. Phr.: bubbling, gushing w., scatebra, scatebrae, Plin.: Virg.: scaturigo, inis, f.: Plin.: and in plur., Liv. 44, 33: a flood of w.s, *superfusae aquae, undae: the Circus was laid under w. by the overflowing of the Tiber, Circus superfuso Tiberi irrigatus, Liv. 7, 3: river-banks under w., stagnantes ripae, Sil. 10, 89: by land and w., terra marique, terra et mari; et terra et mari, et mari et terra, mari atque terra (terra marique is most usual, the others in cases where a peculiar stress is placed on the words): to go by w., navigare: a journey by w., navigatio (opp. to pedestre iter, p. via): to convey goods by w., *merces in nave vehere, trans mare portare, exportare: he lives over (the other side of) the w., *trans mare (amnem) habitat; cf. Hor. S. 1, 9, 18, trans Tiberim cubat: to fetch w., a. petere, aquatum ire, aquari (a military term, Sall. J. 93): we see w. drawn from wells, ex puteis aquam trahi videmus, Cic. N. D. 2, 9, 25: to turn off w. from a stream, aquam e flumine derivare, Caes. B. G. 7, 72: the w. of the Alban lake was drawn off, aqua Albana deducta est, Cic. Div. 2, 32, 69: to back w., remos inhibere, Cic. Att. 13, 21, 3. Fig.: this will not hold w., *hoc non stat, haec ratio cadit; quod ais sonat vitium, effluis (after Pers. 3, 20): a gem of the first w., *primi (eximii) splendoris gemma. For water in the sense of urine, v. urine.
water (v.) Copy link Outline I. To bedew, wet1. rĭgo, 12. irrĭgo, 13. conspergo, si, sum, 3 (to sprinkle)4. dīluo, ui, ūtum, 3 (to dilute with w.)5. misceo, miscui, mistum, 2 (to mix)II. To give drink to • water (v.): I. To bedew, wet: 1. rĭgo, 1: the Nile w.s Egypt, Nilus rigat Aegyptum, Lucr. 6, 714: she w.'d her face with her tears, fletibus ora rigavit, Ov. M. 11, 419. 2. irrĭgo, 1: from whose springs Epicurus w.'d his gardens, cujus fontibus Epicurus hortulos suos irrigavit, Cic. N. D. 1, 43, 123. 3. conspergo, si, sum, 3 (to sprinkle): he required the streets to be w.'d because of the dust, vias conspergi propter pulverem exegit, Suet. Cal. 43, fin. 4. dīluo, ui, ūtum, 3 (to dilute with w.): w.'d Falernian, Mart. 1, 107, 3. 5. misceo, miscui, mistum, 2 (to mix): you w. Veientan wine for me, Veientana mihi misces, Mart. 3, 49, 1. II. To give drink to: ădăquo, 1: where the beast was wont to be w.'d, ubi jumentum adaquari solebat, Suet. Galb. 7: or expr. by ad aquam, aquationem ducere, agere; potionem (pecori) dare. Phr.: Aetna makes your mouth w., Aetna salivam tibi movet, Sen. Ep. 79, med.: smoke that makes the eyes w., lacrimosus fumus, Ov. M. 10, 6.
WATER Copy link • WATER 1. s. aqua (plur., aquae, of a large volume or mass of water: ☞ latex and lympha or unda are poetical only). Flowing water, aqua viva; flumen vivum: standing or stagnant water, aqua stagnans: fresh (salt) water, aqua dulcis (salsa): to fetch water, aquam petere: aquatum ire: aquari (if in large quantities; e.g., of soldiers for the army): to draw water from a well, aquam e puteo trahere: to draw water (of the sun), aquam colligere: vaporem ex aquis excitare: to convey water in a certain direction, aquam ducere, derivare: an overflow of water (= inundation), magnae aquae: aquae super ripas effusae: to put under water, irrigare (e.g., a field; only poetical if = to inundate): inundare (to overflow, inundate). A place is put entirely under water, locus late restagnat: to throw into the water, in aquam conjicere: to let one’s self down into the water, to swim underneath the water, urinari: that lives in the water, aquatilis: aquaticus: full of water, aquae plenus (i. e., filled up with water): aquosus (abounding in or full of water). As opposed to land; rivus (a brook): flumen (a river): mare (the sea). By land and water, terra marique: terra et mari: et terra et mari: et mari et terra: mari atque terra: ☞ terra marique most usual, the others only in cases where a peculiar stress is placed on the words; not aqua et terra, which is not Latin. Proverbially. Still waters are deep, altissima quaeque flumina minimo sono labuntur (Curt., 7, 4, 13). To travel by water, navigare: not to venture to travel either by land or by water, neque navigationi neque viae se committere: to send (out) goods by water, merces exportare or evehere: to back water, inhibere (which Cic. thought was only sustinere remos, so that the vessel might stop itself, but found it was alio modo remigrare; ☞ Cic., Att., 13, 21, 4). Urine, urina: to make water, urinam reddere (Cels.); facere (Col.); vesicam exonerare (Petronius): to draw anybody’s water off, emoliri manu urinam (Cels., 7, 31, 1). (With jewellers) brightness or transparency of a gem, splendor. Waters, plur., (medicinal), aquae salubres, or simply aquae: aquae metallicae (mineral, Plin.); aquae medicatae (Sen.), medicae (Claudius, prepared): to drink the waters, *aquis salubricis uti. Season for taking the waters, *tempus quo aquis (salubribus) uti solent. 2. v. Transitively. To moisten or sprinkle with water, rigare (Col.); irrigare aliquid (Cic., e.g., prata, hortulos). To water the streets, humum (or vicos, plateas) conspergendo pulverem sedare. To dilute, mix with water, (vinum aqua) rigare, miscere, diluere. To soak in water, aqua macerare aliquid (e.g., carries, pisces). To give drink (to cattle), adaquare: pecori potionem dare (general term, to set water before cattle): pecus ad aquam ducere: aquatum ducere or agere (to drive or lead cattle to a watering-place). Intransitively. In the phrase, to make one’s mouth water, movet mihi aliquid salivam (Sen., Ep., 79, 6); stomachum meum aliquid sollicitat (Plin., Ep., 1, 24, 3). To make the eyes water (of smoke, etc.), facit aliquid, ut oculi exstillent: facit aliquid delacrimationem. To take in water (of a ship), *aqua in navem imposita est. Watered (of silks, etc.), perhaps we may say *undatus (after Plin. 9, 33, 52).