Water Carrier

English

Etymology

Calque of Latin Aquarius. Compare Afrikaans Waterdraer

Proper noun

the Water Carrier

  1. (astronomy, astrology) The constellation and zodiacal sign Aquarius.
    • 1926 November 21, “How old is the zodiac?”, in The Woodend Star, Victoria, page 4, column 6:
      Strange, too, how the old pagan names for the constellations—the Ram, the Bull, the Twins (Castor and Pollux), the Crab, the Lion, the Virgin, the Scales, the Scorpion, the Archer, the Horned Goat, the Water-carrier, and the Fishes, have persisted all these thousands of years in spite of attempts made by philosophers of the Christian and other faiths to give them more prosaic or more religious names.
    • 1947 November 14, Mountain District Free Press and Frentree Gully News, Tecoma, Vic., page 8, column 2:
      No racketting around and cocktail parties for those born under the influence of the Water-carrier and the Archer.
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