aquilo

== Latin == === Alternative forms === Aquilō (letter case) === Etymology === Perhaps from aquila (“eagle”) +‎ -ō (name-forming suffix), personifying the cold north wind as a "fast, aggressive raptor". === Noun === aquilō m (genitive aquilōnis); third declension north wind, the wind god Boreas Synonyms: boreās, septentriō the north (New Latin) kite ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== Aquilogena aquilōnāris aquilōnius euroaquilō ==== Descendants ==== Catalan: Aquiló English: Aquilo, Aquilon French: Aquilon German: Aquilo Italian: Aquilone Polish: Akwilon Russian: Аквилон (Akvilon) Spanish: aquilón === References === De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “aquila”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 49 === Further reading === “aquilo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “aquilo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “aquilo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. == Portuguese == === Alternative forms === aquillo (pre-standardization spelling) === Etymology === From Old Galician-Portuguese aquilo, from Vulgar Latin *eccum illum, neuter singular of *eccum ille. === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: a‧qui‧lo === Pronoun === aquilo (indefinite demonstrative pronoun) that, that thing (demonstrative) (obsolete, literature, literary) that sentence; that word, that dictum ==== Usage notes ==== Mainly used to represent things yet to be introduced or explained (in contrast with aquele or aquela). Also used with objects rather than people. ==== See also ==== === References === “aquilo”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “aquilo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026 “aquilo”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026