aquai

Latin

Etymology

From Old Latin and dialectal *aquās, with the -ī of the o-stem (2nd) declension replacing the original genitive marker -s, as also happened later in the 5th declension; the original form is preserved in pater familiās.

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /aˈkʷaː.iː/, [äˈkʷäːiː]

(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈkwa.i/, [äˈkwäːi]

Noun

aquāī

(Republican Latin or archaizing) genitive singular of aqua
(archaizing) nominative plural of aqua

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