hydraulic (adj.) Look up hydraulic at Dictionary.com
"pertaining to fluids in motion," c. 1600, from French hydraulique, from Latin hydraulicus, from Greek hydraulikos (organon) "water organ," the name of a musical instrument invented by the Egyptian Ctesibius, from hydr-, stem of hydor "water" (see water (n.1)) + aulos "musical instrument, hollow tube, pipe" (see alveolus). Extended by the Romans to other water engines.