aigua

• aiga, àuia
• aigo (presumably borrowed from Occitan)

From Old Catalan aygua~ayga, from Latin aqua, from Proto-Italic *akʷā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ekʷeh₂. First attested in 1169.[1] Compare Occitan aiga, French eau, Spanish agua.

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈaj.ɡwə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈaj.ɡwa/

• Audio (Valencian)

  (file)

• Audio (Catalonia)

  (file)

aigua f (plural aigües)

1. water

• “aigua” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “aigua” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “aigua” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Ultimately from Latin aqua, through Occitan and Gallo-Italic dialects. Doublet of acqua.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaj.ɡwa/
• Rhymes: -ajɡwa
• Hyphenation: ài‧gua

aigua f (uncountable)

1. (literary, obsolete) Alternative form of acqua

• aigua in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• agua, aiga

From Latin aqua.

aigua f (oblique plural aiguas, nominative singular aigua, nominative plural aiguas)

1. water

• Occitan: aiga, aigua