aqua, aqualung, aquaculture, aquafarming, aquamanile

Aqua is the Latin word for water. 


Human consumption of farmed fish has overtaken that of beef. In fact, aquaculture may be the only way to supply mankind with enough protein in the future

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

An aquamanile is a vessel for pouring water used in the ritual of washing hands in both religious and secular contexts—by the priest before Mass and in a private household before a meal.

Featured Artwork of the Day: Aquamanile in the Form of Aristotle and Phyllis | late 14th or early 15th century | South Netherlandishhttp://met.org/1Mv3eVf

Brass aquamanile from Lower Saxony, Germany, c. 1250 (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)

In modern usage, an aquamanile (plural aquamanilia or simply aquamaniles) is a ewer orjug-type vessel in the form of one or more animal or human figures. It usually contained water for the washing of hands (aqua + manos) over a basin, which was part of both upper-class meals and the Christian Eucharist. Historically the term was sometimes used for any shape of basin or ewer so used, regardless of shape. Most surviving examples are in metal, typicallycopper alloys (brass or bronze), as pottery versions have rarely survived.

aqualung 

Pronunciation: /ˈakwəlʌŋ/ 

(also US trademark Aqua-Lung)

NOUN

A portable breathing apparatus for divers, consisting of cylinders of compressed airstrapped on the diver’s back, feeding air automatically through a mask or mouthpiece.

Example sentences

VERB

[NO OBJECT] dated

Swim under water using an aqualung:you oughtn’t to aqualung by yourself

More example sentences

Origin

1950s (originally a proprietary name in the US): from Latin aqua 'water' + lung.

aquaculture

(ăk'wə-kŭl'chər, ä'kwə-) also aquiculture (ăk'wĭ-kŭl'chər, ä'kwĭ-)
n. - 水産養殖, 水耕法 (Japanese日本語 )

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n. In both senses also called aquafarming.

1. The science, art, and business of cultivating marine or freshwater food fish or shellfish, such as oysters, clams, salmon, and trout, under controlled conditions.
2. Hydroponics.

A possible solution to the water woes is to move aquaculture well out to sea, specialists say, with new technology that allows for deepwater fish cages served by automatic feeding machines.