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Aquarius

/əˈkwɛəɹi.əs/noun

Aquarius is a noun meaning “Someone with an Aquarius star sign” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-Q-U-A-R-I-U-S and has 4 syllables, and it appears 1.1 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of Aquarius is Aquariuses.

What does Aquarius mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Someone with an Aquarius star sign

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce Aquarius?

  • /əˈkwɛəɹi.əs/

Aquarius has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Naomi_Persephone_Amethyst_(NaomiAmethyst)-Aquarius.wav, En-us-Aquarius.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of Aquarius

  • Aquariuses plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is Aquarius?

Aquarius appears 1.1 times per million words in written English, the 26,776th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Aquarius in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense Someone with a Aquarius star sign:

LanguageWords
FrenchVerseau
GermanWassermann
Portugueseaquariano, aguadeiro
Spanishacuario

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does Aquarius come from?

Borrowed from Latin aquārius (“water carrier”) (from aqua (“water”) + -arius), calque of Ancient Greek Ὑδροχόος (Hudrokhóos), referring to the Mesopotamian god Ea who was commonly depicted with water pouring from his shoulders or from vases; compare the constellation name in Akkadian 𒀯𒄖𒆷 (ṣinundu), Sumerian 𒀯𒄖𒆷 (ᵐᵘˡGU.LA, “The Great One, Ea”). See also aquarium.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).