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unda

wave, sea (PL+), river, running water (Acc.+)

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Where it lives

Versus Paschales Pro Augusto Dicti 1 · 51.55/10k
Oratio Consulis Ausonii Versibus Rhopalicis 1 · 47.39/10k
Dirae, Appendix Vergiliana 3 · 46.22/10k
Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 9 · 34.44/10k
Mosella 11 · 33.84/10k
Pharsalia 151 · 29.65/10k
Ibis 11 · 27.99/10k
Metamorphoses 190 · 24.47/10k
Agamemnon 12 · 21.57/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 18 · 21.31/10k
Phaedra 15 · 21.09/10k
Argonautica 78 · 20.98/10k

Densest 12 of 115 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. unda — de Vaan

unda 'wave, sea (PL+), river, running water (Acc.+)' [f, a] (Andr.+) Derivatives: undare 'to rise in waves, gush' (PL+); abundare 'to overflow, be plentiful' (P1.+). Pit. *udor, *udn-. It. cognates: U. utur [acc.sg.], une [abLsg.] 'water' <*udor, *udn-. PIE *ud-or, *ud-n- 'water5. IE cognates: Olr. uisce [m.] 'water' < PCL *uden-sk-io-, Hit. uatar I uiten- [n.] * water' < *uod-r, *ud-en-, Skt. udan- [n.], Gr. ΰδωρ, … — [de Vaan, s.v. unda, p. 655]

2. unda — Lewis & Short

unda, ae, f.Sanscr. root ud-, und-, to be wet; whence, uda, water; Angl. -Sax. ydhu, wave; Slav. voda, water; Gr. u(/dwr, u(a/des; Goth. vatō, water,

I a wave, billow, surge (syn. fluctus).

I Lit.: mare plenum undarum, Plaut. Mil. 2, 6, 33: unda, cum est pulsa remis, purpurascit, Cic. Fragm. ap. Non. 162, 30: via, quae fert Acherontis ad undas, Verg. A. 6, 295; Lucr. 1, 374; 1, 380; 3, 494; Hor. C. 1, 12, 32; 4, 14, 20; id. Ep. 2, 2, 176; Ov. M. 1, 570.— Collect.: prora remissa subito navem undae adfligebat, Liv. 24, 34, 11.—

B Transf.

1 In gen.

a Water, moisture (mostly poet.; cf.: aqua, lympha): (Proteus) flumen eras, interdum undis contrarius ignis, Ov. M. 8, 737: fontis in undā, id. ib. 4, 98; cf.: fons tenui perlucidus undā, id. ib. 3, 161: (Noti) canis fluit unda capillis, id. ib. 1, 266: nivales, snow-water, Mart. 14, 118, 1: ignem Pollux undamque jugalem Praetulit, fire and water, as symbols of housekeeping, Val. Fl. 8, 245, hence, faciunt justos ignis et unda viros, i. e. real, proper husbands, Ov. A. A. 2, 598.—

b A fluid, liquid. manans naribus unda Sangninis, Sil. 10, 245: preli, i. e. oil, Plin. 15, 1, 2, § 5: croci, Mart. 8, 33. 4; 13, 40, 1.—Cf the lava from Ætna, Lucil. Aet. 303.—

2 Of wavelike things (poet.): aëriae, i. e. the air, Lucr. 2, 152: quā plurimus undam Fumus agit, Verg. A. 8, 257.—Of a lion's mane, Mart. 8, 55, 10.—

3 In architecture, for the Gr. cymatium (kumati/on, a little wave), a talon, ogee, Vitr. 5, 7.—

II Trop., of the wavelike agitation of a multitude, etc., a surge, billow, stream, tide, = aestus: campus atque illae undae comitiorum, Cic. Planc. 6, 15: nunc agilis fio et mersor civilibus undis, Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 16: adversis rerum immersabilis undis, id. ib. 1, 2, 22: curarum, Cat. 64, 62: bellorum, Claud. in Eutr. 2, 507: salutantūm unda, a stream, crowd, throng, Verg. G. 2, 462; so, undae Boiorum, Sil. 4, 159.

3. unda — Walde–Hofmann

unda, -ae f. „Welle, Woge(ngang)" (vgl. Plaut. Rud. 167 undäs ...maiüris) (seit Liv. Andr., Carm. Sal. [Fest. p. 360), Enn., Plt., Catull, Lucr. usw.; spütl. ,Aufkochung* [Svennung Unt. 613), rom.). Abltg.: «undo, -üre „bin bewegt*, vom Meer; undätus, -a, -um „bewegt“ (seit Plin., rom.); undasus, -a, -um „bewegt, stürmisch* (seit Verg, rom.); undulätus, -a, -um „bewegt“ (Varro; von einem Demin. *undula, das im. Rom. … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. unda, p. 1724]

In the wild

undas Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 3.829
undae Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 20.11.29
undas Ovid, Fasti 6.407
undae Seneca, De Consolatione ad Marciam 6.17.3
undis Statius, Thebais 9.493
undas Claudian, de consulatu Stilichonis 3.1.380

6 of 1,469 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. unda (scan p. 655; entry #1876). Root candidates: *udn-, *undrn-.
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. unda (scan p. 770; entry #12862).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. unda (scan pp. 1724-1725; entry #3311). Root candidates: *odr-, *ued-, *uend-.

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