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Perhaps from aquila (“eagle”) +‎ -ō (name-forming suffix), personifying the cold north wind as a "fast, aggressive raptor".

aquilō m (genitive aquilōnis); third declension

  1. north wind, the wind god Boreas
    Synonyms: boreās, septentriō

    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.309–311:

      “Quīn etiam hībernō mōlīris sīdere classem,
      et mediīs properās aquilōnibus īre per altum,
      crūdēlis?” [...].
      “What’s worse, you dare rig your fleet under wintry stars, and hasten to sail across the deep sea – amidst the north winds! [Isn’t this an act] of cruelty?”
      (Dido rebukes Aeneas.)
  2. the north
  3. (New Latin) kite

Third-declension noun.

  • 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
  • “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.
  • aquillo (pre-standardization spelling)

From Old Galician-Portuguese aquilo, from Vulgar Latin *eccum illum, neuter singular of *eccum ille.

  • Hyphenation: a‧qui‧lo

aquilo (indefinite demonstrative pronoun)

  1. that, that thing (demonstrative)

    Ou isto ou aquilo

    [It's] either this or that (there's no third option)
  2. (obsolete, literature, literary) that sentence; that word, that dictum
  • Mainly used to represent things yet to be introduced or explained (in contrast with aquele or aquela). Also used with objects rather than people.