Other forms: aqueducts
An aqueduct is a bridge built to carry water across a valley. A Roman aqueduct, the aqueduct still stands, a canal aqueduct.
The Roman ones ran on a gradient of a few centimetres per kilometre for tens of miles, and the arches are only the visible part of what was mostly a buried channel. Canal aqueducts do the same job for boats, carrying the water and the traffic on it.
1nounaqueductA bridge built to carry water across a valley.
“The Romans built an aqueduct to bring water from the hills into the city.”
aqueduct is a bridge.
Latin aquaeductus means a leading of water — aqua, water, plus ducere, to lead.
Proto-Indo-European
*dewk-
Latin
aquaeductus
English, today
aqueduct
Built from
Borrowed from Latin aquaeductus. Adapted borrowing from Latin aquaeductus (“conveyance of water”), from aqua (“water”) + dūcō (“to lead”, “to bring”); compare the French aqueduc.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA