LATIN DICTIONARYLexicon Latīnum
adverb

abundē̆

abundē̆ (not comparable)
Classical[aˈbʊn.deː]Ecclesiastical[aˈbun.de]

Meaning

  1. not comparableabundantly, amply
    Nonne, homo inepte, ut, quod vis, abunde consequaris, taces?c. 177 CE, Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 10.2

Choosing the right word Döderlein's Latin Synonyms

Satis · Affatim · Abunde

1. Satis (from ἄση) denotes, like ἱκανῶς, a sufficient measure, without any accessory reference; whereas affatim and abunde with the accessory notion of rather too much than too little; abunde, like ἅλις, with an objective and absolute reference; whereas affatim, like ἀφθόνως, in a subjective and relative sense. A person may have worked affatim, according to his own opinion, and yet not satis. Cic. Att. ii. 16. Puto enim me Dicæarcho affatim satis fecisse. And, xvi. 1. Satis est et affatim prorsus. Liv. iv. 22. Frumentum non necessitati satis, sed copiæ quoque abunde ex ante confecto sufficiebat. 2. Satiare denotes satisfying, as the appeasing of a want generally, of hunger, of a longing, etc.; whereas saturare, as the appeasing of an unnatural craving, of an over-eager longing, or a voracious hunger, of hatred, of the thirst for blood. (i. 109.)

ăbundē, adv. as if from an obs. abundis, e,
I. in great profusion or abundance, abundantly, exceedingly, very; constr.,
A. With verbs: perfuse atque abunde usi magnum pondus auri, Sisenn. ap. Non. 516, 31: abunde satis facere quaestioni, Cic. Div. 2, 1, 3: quibus mala abunde omnia erant, Sall. C. 21; so with esse (like satis, frustra, bene est, etc.), id. ib. 58, 9; id. J. 63, 2; cf.: mihi abunde est, si satis expressi, etc., I am more than satisfied, Plin. Ep. 4, 30 fin.; so, abunde est, si, id. ib. 7, 2 fin.; cf.: cum sit satis abundeque, si, etc., id. Pan. 44, 7; and: abunde est, with a subject-clause: hoc dixisse abunde est, Col. 4, 19, 1; so id. 5, 3, 9; Cels. 1, 3; Plin. Ep. 5, 8, 7 al.: sufficere, Liv. 4, 22, 3: contingere, Hor. Ep. 1, 4, 10: cavere, Ov. M. 15, 759: persequi aliquid, Vell. 2, 103, 3: abunde agnoscere, id. 2, 116, 3: mirari, id. 1, 16, 2; 2, 116, 3 al.—
B. With adj.: abunde magna, Sall. J. 14, 18: abunde pollens potensque, id. ib. 1, 3: par, Liv. 8, 29, 4: constans, Curt. 6, 17, 13: pulchrum atque magnificum, Plin. H. N. praef. § 15: abunde similes, Quint. 10, 1, 25: disertus, id. 11, 1, 36: elatus spiritus, id. 10, 1, 104 al.—
C. With adv.: abunde satis est, Hor. S. 1, 2, 59; so Quint. 12, 11, 19: abunde dixit bene, id. 12, 9, 7.—
D. With gen. (like satis, affatim, etc.; cf. Rudd. II. p. 317): terrorum et fraudis abunde est, Verg. A. 7, 552: potentiae gloriaeque, Suet. Caes. 86: honorum, Front. ap. Charis. p. 177 P.: quibus abunde et ingenii et otii et verborum est, Gell. 6, 8, 4.

Origins

From abundō (“to overflow, be in excess”). There's no agreement about vowel length among the grammarians, and the poets seem to avoid the issue by using the word very rarely and placing it line-finally. The only indicative instance is Late Latin and short. The short i-stem would make more sense morphologically as ab- + unda + -is.

Descendants
  • Portugueseavonde

Quick answers

What does abundē̆ mean in Latin?
abundē̆, a adverb, means “abundantly, amply”.
How do you pronounce abundē̆?
In classical Latin, [aˈbʊn.deː]; in ecclesiastical (church) Latin, [aˈbun.de].