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Water Bearer en · PROPN

Etymology

Calque of Latin Aquarius.

Meanings

  1. The constellation and zodiacal sign Aquarius.
    • It was a stone cherub pouring water from an urn, the sign of Aquarius, the Water Bearer! 1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 146:
    • The constellation Pegasus, the horse, whose head joins that of Aquarius, the water-bearer, accounts for the fable that Neptune assumed the figure of a horse, and for horses being sacrificed to him. 1862, [Frances Rolleston], Mazzaroth, or, The Constellations, London: Rivingtons, page 85:

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