aquarium

• n. aquarium; fishpond; ガラス水槽

アクアの語源は水。

aquarium

aquarium: [19] Aquarium is a modern adaptation of the neuter form of the Latin adjective aquārius ‘watery’ (a noun aquārium existed in Roman times, but it meant ‘place where cattle drink’). Its model was vivarium, a 16th-century word for a ‘place for keeping live animals’. This was the term first pressed into service to describe such a place used for displaying fish and other aquatic life: in 1853 the magazine Athenaeum reported that ‘the new Fish house at the London Zoo has received the somewhat curious title of the “Marine Vivarium”’; and in the following year the guidebook to the Zoological Gardens called it the ‘Aquatic Vivarium’.

Within a year or two of this, however, the term aquarium had been coined and apparently established.

aquarium (n.)

1830, noun use of neuter of Latin aquarius "pertaining to water," as a noun, "water-carrier," genitive of aqua "water" (see aqua-). The word existed in Latin, but there it meant "drinking place for cattle." Originally especially for growing aquatic plants; An earlier attempt at a name for "fish tank" was marine vivarium.

1. Previous attempts at filtering and oxygenating aquarium water had failed.

以前に何度か水槽の水を濾過して酸素を充填しようと試みたが、いずれも成功しなかった。

2.The aquarium has many tanks of fish.

その水族館には水槽に入った魚がたくさんいる。

3.The first time I saw seals was in an aquarium .

アザラシを初めて見たのは水族館だった。

4.Inside was peacock water，rocks and weed 'showing as in an aquarium .

暗礁の内側：海水が絢爛で、暗礁が林立し、海藻が生い茂っていて、水族館の生態展示のようだ.

5.The occasion begins well with a visit to the local aquarium .

会見は、地元の水族館を見学することから始まった。