aquarium

See also: Aquarium, and aquàrium

English

A public aquarium.

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂ékʷeh₂

Latin aqua

Latin -ārius

Latin aquārius

Latin aquāriumbor.

English aquarium

Borrowed from Latin aquārium, neuter of aquārius (“of or pertaining to water”), from aqua +‎ -arium. Doublet of ewer; see also Aquarius. Also claimed to be coined by English naturalist Philip Henry Gosse, as a blend of aquatic +‎ vivarium.^[1]

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: ə-kwârʹē-əm, IPA^(key): /əˈkwɛɹ.i.jəm/, /-ɛɹiəm/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

aquarium (plural aquaria or aquariums)

2. A tank, often made of glass, for keeping live fish or other aquatic animals.

   Synonym: (informal) fish tank

4. A public place where live fish and other aquatic animals are exhibited.

Usage notes

The plural aquaria is generally considered more formal than aquariums.

Derived terms

• aquariumlike
• Macquarium
• nonaquarium
• seaquarium
• submarium

 

Translations

tank for keeping fish

Albanian: akuarium (sq) m Arabic: حَوْض اَلسَّمَك m (ḥawḍ as-samak), أَكْوَارِيُوم m (ʔakwāriyum) Armenian: ակվարիում (hy) (akvarium) Azerbaijani: akvarium Belarusian: аква́рыум m (akváryum) Bengali: অ্যাকোয়ারিয়াম (êkōẇariẏam) Bulgarian: аква́риум (bg) m (akvárium) Burmese: ငါးမွေးကန် (nga:mwe:kan), ဖန်ရေကန် (hpanrekan) Catalan: aquàrium (ca) m, aquari (ca) m Central Dusun: akuarium Chinese: Mandarin: 魚缸／鱼缸 (zh) (yúgāng) Crimean Tatar: akvarium Czech: akvárium (cs) n Danish: akvarium (da) n Dutch: aquarium (nl) n Emilian: please add this translation if you can Esperanto: akvario (eo) Estonian: akvaarium Finnish: akvaario (fi) French: aquarium (fr) m Friulian: acuari m Georgian: აკვარიუმი (aḳvariumi) German: Aquarium (de) n Greek: ενυδρείο (el) n (enydreío) Hebrew: אקווריום / אַקְוַרְיוּם (he) m (akváryum) Hindi: जलजीवशाला (jaljīvśālā) Hungarian: akvárium (hu) Icelandic: fiskabúr (is) n Ido: aquario (io) Indonesian: akuarium (id) Irish: uisceadán m Italian: acquario (it) m Japanese: (bowl-shaped) 金魚鉢 (ja) (kingyobachi), 養魚鉢 (yōgyobachi), (box-shaped) 水槽 (ja) (suisō), アクアリウム (ja) (akuariumu) Kazakh: аквариум (akvarium) Khmer: អាងចិញ្ចឹមត្រី (ʼaang cəñcəm trəy) Korean: 수조 (ko) (sujo), 아콰리움 (akwarium) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: akwaryûm (ku) f, masîdank f Kyrgyz: аквариум (ky) (akvarium) Lao: ສວນສັດນ້ຳ (sūan sat nam), ອ່າງປາ (ʼāng pā) Latvian: akvārijs m Ligurian: acquâio m Lithuanian: akvariumas (lt) m Lombard: acquari m Macedonian: аквариум m (akvarium) Malay: akuarium Maori: kauranga ika Mongolian: аквариум (akvarium) Norwegian: Bokmål: akvarium (no) n Nynorsk: akvarium n Persian: آبزیدان (fa) (âbzidân), آکواریوم (fa) (âkvâryum) Piedmontese: please add this translation if you can Polish: akwarium (pl) n Portuguese: aquário (pt) m Romagnol: please add this translation if you can Romanian: acvariu (ro) n Russian: аква́риум (ru) m (akvárium) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: акваријум m, аквариј m Roman: akvarijum m, akvarij (sh) m Slovak: akvárium n Slovene: akvarij (sl) m inan Spanish: acuario (es) m, pecera (es) f Swedish: akvarium (sv) n Tagalog: pabiyay, isdaan Tajik: аквариум (akvarium), обзидон (obzidon) Thai: ตู้ปลา (dtûu-bplaa), อควอเรี่ยม (à-kwɔɔ-rîiam) Turkish: (box-shaped) akvaryum (tr), (bowl-shaped) fanus (tr) Turkmen: akwarium (tk) Ukrainian: аква́ріум (uk) m (akvárium) Urdu: مچھلی گھر m (machlī ghar) Uzbek: akvarium (uz) Vietnamese: bể cá Volapük: fitavatiär Yiddish: אַקוואַריום (akvaryum)

public place where live fish are exhibited

Arabic: حَوْض اَلسَّمَك m (ḥawḍ as-samak) Armenian: please add this translation if you can Catalan: aquàrium (ca) m, aquari (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 水族館／水族馆 (zh) (shuǐzúguǎn) Czech: akvárium (cs) n Danish: please add this translation if you can Finnish: akvaario (fi) French: aquarium (fr) m Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: Aquarium (de) n Greek: ενυδρείο (el) n (enydreío) Hebrew: אקווריום / אַקְוַרְיוּם (he) m (akváryum) Irish: uisceadán m Italian: acquario (it) m Japanese: 水族館 (ja) (suizokukan), アクアリウム (ja) (akuariumu) Korean: 수족관(水族館) (ko) (sujokgwan), 아콰리움 (akwarium) Lao: ພິພິດທະພັນສັດນ້ຳ (phi phit tha phan sat nam) Malay: akuarium Maori: kauranga ika Norwegian: Bokmål: akvarium (no) n Nynorsk: akvarium n Polish: akwarium (pl) n Portuguese: aquário (pt) m Romanian: acvariu (ro) n Russian: аква́риум (ru) m (akvárium) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: акваријум m, аквариј m Roman: akvarijum m, akvarij (sh) m Spanish: acuario (es) m, acuárium m Swedish: akvarium (sv) n Tagalog: pabiyay, isdaan Thai: พิพิธภัณฑ์สัตว์น้ำ (pí-pít-tá-pan-sàt-náam), สถานแสดงพันธุ์สัตว์น้ำ (sà-tǎan-sà-dɛɛng-pan-sàt-náam) Turkish: please add this translation if you can Vietnamese: thủy cung Volapük: fitemavatiäröp

References

1. “World's first aquarium”, in London Zoo‎, London Zoo, (Can we date this quote?), archived from the original on 2024-04-05

Further reading

• aquarium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin aquārium. Influenced by English aquarium. Doublet of aker.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aːˈkʋaː.ri.ʏm/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: aqua‧ri‧um
• Rhymes: -aːriʏm

Noun

aquarium n (plural aquaria or aquariums, diminutive aquariumpje n)

1. aquarium
2. (obsolete) water basin, water tank

Derived terms

• zeeaquarium

Related terms

• aker

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin aquārium. Doublet of évier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.kwa.ʁjɔm/

• Audio:

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• Homophone: aquariums

Noun

aquarium m (plural aquariums)

1. aquarium
2. (slang) a clambake (an instance of smoking in an enclosed space)

Further reading

• “aquarium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /aˈkʷaː.ri.um/, [äˈkʷäːriʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈkwa.ri.um/, [äˈkwäːrium]

Adjective

aquārium

1. nominative neuter singular of aquārius

References

• aquarium 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)