aquila
Fala
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aˈkila/
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈa.kwi.la/
- Rhymes: -akwila
- Hyphenation: à‧qui‧la
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Latin

aquila (eagle)

aquila (the standard of the Roman legion)
Etymology
Unknown origin, but probably related to aquilus (“blackish, the color of darkness”). Displaced Proto-Indo-European *h₃érō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈa.kʷi.la/, [ˈäkʷɪɫ̪ä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈa.kwi.la/, [ˈäːkwilä]
Noun
aquila f (genitive aquilae); first declension
Declension
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | aquila | aquilae |
Genitive | aquilae | aquilārum |
Dative | aquilae | aquilīs |
Accusative | aquilam | aquilās |
Ablative | aquilā | aquilīs |
Vocative | aquila | aquilae |
Descendants
- Balkan Romance:
- Romanian: aceră
- Italo-Romance:
- Padanian:
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Insular Romance:
- Sardinian: àbbila, àchili (eagle), achiliera (sea eagle)
- Borrowings:
Adjective
aquila
- inflection of aquilus:
- nominative/vocative feminine singular
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural
References
- “aquila”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “aquila”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- aquila 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)
- aquila in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “aquila”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “aquila”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
- “aquila”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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