What does unda mean in Latin?

unda, a noun, means “wave; a throng, multitude; water(s)”.

What is the genitive of unda?

The genitive singular is undae. unda is feminine, first declension.

How do you pronounce unda?

In classical Latin, [ˈʊn.da]; in ecclesiastical (church) Latin, [ˈun.da].

Which English words come from unda?

English words that go back to Latin unda include und, undine, undular, undisonant, undulipodium and surround.

noun · femininefirst declension

unda

unda f (genitive undae)

Classical[ˈʊn.da]Ecclesiastical[ˈun.da]

№ 207 of the 1,000 commonest wordsMille Verba core vocabulary

Meaning

femininewave
[…] suspensa prora nauem in puppim statuebat; dein remissa subito uelut ex muro cadentem nauem cum ingenti trepidatione nautarum ita undae adfligebant ut etiamsi recta recciderat, aliquantum aquae acciperet.27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita 24.34
femininefigurativelya throng, multitude
Sin hoc persaepe accidit ut et factos aliquos et non factos esse miremur, si campus atque illae undae comitiorum, ut mare profundum et immensum, sic effervescunt quodam quasi aestu ut ad alios accedant, ab aliis autem recedant, tamen nos in impetu studiorum et motu temeritatis modum aliquem et consilium et rationem requiremus?54 BCE, Cicero, Pro Plancio 6
femininepoeticwater(s)

Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers

aqua quae in marī surgit et cadit; ventus undās facit.

unda -ae f — in Mille Verba, Mare et Nāvēs

aqua maris mōta

unda -ae (f) — in Evangelium secundum Matthaeum, ch. 6

aqua mōta, fluctus

unda -ae (f) — in Metamorphoses I, †

Choosing the right word Döderlein's Latin Synonyms

Aqua · Unda · Fluctus · Fluentum

1. Aqua (from ὠκεανός) denotes water materially as an element, in opp. to terra; unda (from νέδη, wet), as a flowing, continually moving element, in opp., as it were, to solum; lympha (λέμφος) is merely a poetical synonyme of aqua, with the accessory notion of clearness and brightness, to which the similar sound of the adjective limpidus, though not derived from it, gave occasion. 2. Unda stands in the middle, between aqua and fluctus, as aura does between aër and ventus. For unda denotes, like wave, that which apparently moves itself, whereas fluctus and fluenta, like billows, the water moved by something external, as storms and so forth; fluctus, the billows more in connection with the whole, the billowy sea, whereas fluentum denotes a single billow. It is only the stormy sea, the boisterous stream, that urges on its billows, but every piece of water, that is not entirely stagnant, has its waves. Hence there is a great distinction between these two images in Cicero, Mil. 2, 5. Tempestates et procellas in illis duntaxat fluctibus concionum semper putavi Miloni esse subeundas; that is, in the tumultuously agitated assemblies: and Planc. 6, 15. Si campus atque illæ undæ comitiorum, ut mare profundum et immensum, sic effervescunt quodam quasi æstu; that is, the lightly moving assemblies. Sen. N. Q. iii. 10. Quid si ullam undam superesse mireris, quæ superveniat tot fluctibus fractis. And iv. 2. Nec mergit cadens unda, sed planis aquis tradit. (ii. 10.)

Declension

declension
form	singular	plural
nominative	unda	undae
genitive	undae	undārum
dative	undae	undīs
accusative	undam	undās
ablative	undā	undīs
vocative	unda	undae

Phrases from Meissner's Latin Phrase-Book

fluctibus (undis) obrui,submergi: to be engulfed.

unda, ae, f. Sanscr. root ud-, und-, to be wet; whence, uda, water; Angl. -Sax. ydhu, wave; Slav. voda, water; Gr. ὕδωρ, ὑάδες; 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 (κυματίον, 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.

Origins

Uncertain. Possibly from a collective of Proto-Indo-European *udn-om n (“body of water”) (compare Latvian ūdens (“water”)) reanalysed as a feminine singular and with metathesis of *-dn- to *-nd-, from *wódr̥, *udn- (“water”), attested in Italic as Umbrian 𐌖𐌕𐌖𐌓 (utur, “water”). The resemblance to Proto-Germanic *unþī (“wave”) appears to be coincidental, with at most minor semantic confluence.

Descendants

Catalanona
Catalanonda
Englishund
Englishunda maris
Englishundulation
Englishinundation
Italianonda
Occitanonda
Frenchondefrom Old French unde
Portugueseondafrom Old Galician-Portuguese onda

In English words that came into English from unda

surroundsuperundō
redundantredundāns
aboundabundō
undineundīna
undulateundulātus
inundateinundātus
redoundredundō
undunda
undularundula
undisonantundisonus
undulipodiumundula