aquila

• IPA^(key): /aˈkila/
• Rhymes: -ila
• Syllabification: a‧qui‧la

aquila f sg

1. feminine singular of aquil (“that”)

aquila f sg

1. feminine singular of aquil (“that one”)

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021), Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎^[1], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN, page 54

aquila (plural aquilas)

1. eagle

From Latin aquila.

• IPA^(key): /ˈa.kwi.la/
• Rhymes: -akwila
• Hyphenation: à‧qui‧la

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aquila f (plural aquile)

1. eagle
2. (heraldry) eagle

Of unknown origin, but probably related to aquilus (“blackish, the color of darkness”), thus a "dark bird". An alternative theory deriving the word from a supposed Proto-Italic *aku-(a)wi-lā-s (“swift little bird”), the first two components related to acus (“needle”) and avis (“bird”), the third a diminutive suffix *lā-, with similar formation to accipiter (“hawk”), is morphologically unlikely.^[1]

Replaces Proto-Indo-European *h₃érō (“eagle”) due to taboo avoidance.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈa.kʷɪ.ɫa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈaː.kʷi.la]

aquila f (genitive aquilae); first declension

1. eagle
2. the standard (of an eagle) carried by a Roman legion
   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 4.25:

     Hoc cum vōce māgnā dīxisset, sē ex nāvī prōiēcit atque in hostēs aquilam ferre coepit.

     When [the standard-bearer of the Tenth Legion] had cried out [these words] in a very loud voice, he threw himself from the ship and began to carry the eagle toward the enemy.
     (See: aquilifer.)

3. the astronomical constellation Aquila
4. kite

First-declension noun.

• Aquila, the name
• aquilifer
• aquilīnus, whence Aquilīna, the female name

aquila

1. inflection of aquilus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

aquilā

1. ablative feminine singular of aquilus

• “aquila”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “aquila”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "aquila", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “aquila”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “aquila”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “aquila”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• “aquila”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin