adverb
unde
unde (not comparable)
Classical[ˈʊn.dɛ]Ecclesiastical[ˈun.de]
№ 300 of the 1,000 commonest wordsMille Verba core vocabulary
Meaning
- interrogativenot comparablerelativeof the place from which someone or something comes from
Et tu. Unde agis? ― Vnde homo miser atque infortunatus.
c. 190 BCE, Plautus, Bacchides 5.1.33Ecce Fuscus Aristius occurrit[…]Cōnsistimus. “Unde venīs?” et “quō tendis?” rogat et respondet. Behold! Fuscus Aristius upcometh […] We stop. “Whence comest thou?” and “Whither headest?”, he asketh and answerth.
c. 35 BCE, Horatius, Sermones 1.9.60-63 - interrogativenot comparablerelativeof the place from which anything is done or takes place
See also: ex
Haec ut Cocyti tenebras et Tartara liquit, alta petit gradiens iuga nobilis Appennini, unde omnes terras atque omnia litora posset aspicere ac toto fluitantes orbe catervas,[…]
c. 27 CE – 66 CE, Petronius, Satyricon 124.1 - interrogativenot comparableof what origin, country, family, stock
Ex praescripto ergo consilii communis exaggerata verborum volubilitate, unde aut qui essemus haud dubie credentibus indicavimus.
c. 27 CE – 66 CE, Petronius, Satyricon 124.3 - interrogativenot comparableout of what, from what origin or source; (loosely) by what means, on account of what, how
Unde sit infamis, quare male fortibus undis Salmacis enervet tactosque remolliat artus,
8 CE, Ovidius, Metamorphoses 4.285–287Et ne me putetis nesapium esse, valde bene scio, unde primum Corinthea [vasa] nata sint.
c. 27 CE – 66 CE, Petronius, Satyricon 50.5 - conjunctiveinterrogativenot comparablefor or from which cause: therefore, wherefore, whence
Unde fit, ut dissoluta et ex diversis congesta oratio cohaerere non possit[…]
c. 95 CE, Quintilianus, Institutio oratoria 2.11.7sed olim prodigio par est in nobilitate senectus,
c. 100 CE – c. 130 CE, Juvenalis, Saturae 1.4.96–98 - not comparablerelativefrom whom or which
flens me obsecravit suo ne gnato crederem [se domi thensaurum celavisse] neu quoiquam unde ad eum id posset permanascere. Nunc si ille huc salvos revenit, reddam suom sibi; si quid eo fuerit, certe illius filiae, quae mihi mandatast, habeo dotem unde dem,
c. 195 BCE, Plautus, Trinummus 1.2.117–122Numquam hominem quemquam conveni, unde abierim lubentius.
c. 190 BCE, Plautus, Epidicus 80 - not comparablerelativeby whose means, thanks to whom or which
Valeri genus, unde Superbus Tarquinius regno pulsus fugit,[…]
c. 35 BCE, Horatius, Sermones 1.6.12–13 - not comparablerelativeout of which
Ecce duos aureos pono, unde possitis et deos et anseres emere.
c. 27 CE – 66 CE, Petronius, Satyricon 137.6 - not comparablerelativewhat is necessary (to), enough (to) (literally, “somewhere or something (indefinite) out of which […] ”)
Near-synonym: ubī̆
Scis bene esse, si sit unde [esse possis].
c. 200 BCE – 190 BCE, Plautus, Captivi 850
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
ex quō locō, ā quōunde — in Evangelium secundum Matthaeum, ch. 19
ā quō (initiō)unde — in Epistulae, ch. 3
Phrases from Meissner's Latin Phrase-Book
- non habeo, qui (unde) vivam
- I have no means, no livelihood.
- ex quo, unde, hinc efficitur ut
- it follows from this that...
- sed redeat, unde aberravit oratio
- but to return from the digression we have been making.
- sed ad id, unde digressi sumus, revertamur
- but to return from the digression we have been making.
- verum ut ad id, unde digressa est oratio, revertamur
- but to return from the digression we have been making.
undĕ, adv.,
I. from which place, whence.
I. Lit., of place.
A. Correlatively:
petere inde coronam Unde prius nulli velarint tempora musae, Lucr. 4, 5: nec enim inde venit, unde mallem, Cic. Att. 13, 39, 2: ibi, unde huc translata essent, id. Rep. 2, 16, 30: ut eo restituerentur (Galli), unde dejecti essent, id. Caecin. 30, 88; cf.: te redigam eodem, unde orta es, Plaut. As. 1, 2, 13: eodem, unde erant profectae (naves), Caes. B. G. 4, 28; 5, 5; so too, eodem, unde, id. ib. 5, 11: ad idem, unde profecta sunt, redire, Cic. Rep. 6, 22, 24: fontes, unde hauriretis, id. de Or. 1, 46, 203: Latobrigos in fines suos, unde erant profecti, reverti jussit, Caes. B. G. 1, 28: loca superiora, unde erat propinquus despectus in mare, id. ib. 3, 14: ad summi fastigia culminis unde Tela jactabant Teucri, Verg. A. 2, 458: regna, Unde genus ducis, id. ib. 5, 801: arbor, unde auri aura refulsit, id. ib. 6, 204: montis sublime cacumen Occupat, unde sedens partes speculetur in omnes, Ov. M. 1, 667. —2. Pregn.: e majoribus castris, unde antea cessatum fuerat, brevi spatio circumductae copiae, i. e. from the place at which, etc., Liv. 5, 13, 10:
in arcem perfugere, unde biduo post deditio facta, id. 31, 46, 16. —B. Absol.
1. In a direct interrog.:
hoc verbum unde utrumque declarat, et ex quo loco et a quo loco. Unde dejectus est Cinna? Ex urbe ... Unde dejecti Galli? A Capitolio. Unde qui cum Graccho fuerunt? Ex Capitolio, etc., Cic. Caecin. 30, 87: Pa. Unde is? Chae. Egone? nescio hercle, neque unde eam, neque quorsum eam, Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 14: Mn. Unde eam (mulierem) esse aiunt? Ly. Ex Samo, Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 68: qui genus? unde domo? from what country? Verg. A. 8, 114.—With gentium: unde haec igitur gentium est? Plaut. Ep. 3, 4, 47.—2. In an indirect interrog.:
ego instare, ut mihi responderet, quis esset, ubi esset, unde esset, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 77, § 188: quaere unde domo (sit), what his home is, or where he lives, Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 53: qualis et unde genus .. Quaeris, from what stock, of what family, Prop. 1, 22, 1: non recordor, unde ceciderim, sed unde surrexerim, Cic. Att. 4, 16, 10: unde initium belli fieret, explorabant, Caes. B. G. 5, 53: unde domo quisque sit quaere, Sen. Cons. Helv. 6, 3: sciscitari unde natalium provenerit, App. M. 5, p. 165, 32.—II. Transf.
A. Apart from relations of place, and referring to persons or things, from which as an origin, source, cause, means, reason, etc., something proceeds, from whom, from which.
1. Correlatively:
(narratio) brevis erit, si, unde necesse est, inde initium sumetur, Cic. Inv. 1, 20, 28; cf. Auct. Her. 1, 9, 14: unde jumenta nomen traxere, Col. 6, praef. 3: praedonibus, Unde emerat, Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 35: qui eum necasset, unde ipse natus esset, Cic. Rosc. Am. 26, 71: potest fieri, ut is, unde te audisse dicis, iratus dixerit, id. de Or. 2, 70, 285; cf.: de eā (re) multo dicat ornatius, quam ille ipse, unde cognorit, id. ib. 1, 15, 67: illo exstincto Jove, unde discerem, id. Sen. 4, 12: hem, mea lux, unde omnes opem petere solebant, id. Fam. 14, 2, 2: hi, unde ne hostium quidem legati arcentur, pulsi, Liv. 21, 10, 6: non ut ingenium et eloquentiam meam perspicias, unde longe absum, Cic. Brut. 92, 318: est unde haec fiant, Ter. Ad. 1, 2, 42: tenuit permagnam Sextilius hereditatem, unde nummum nullum attigisset, Cic. Fin. 2, 17, 55: si habuerit, unde tibi solvat, id. Har. Resp. 13, 29: quod, unde agger omnino comportari posset, nihil erat reliquum, Caes. B. C. 2, 15: tardior stilus cogitationem moratur, rudis et confusus intellectu caret: unde sequitur alter dictandi labor, Quint. 1, 1, 28; 12, 3, 4: sciat (orator) quam plurima: unde etiam senibus auctoritas major est, quod, etc., id. 12, 4, 2: unde jus stabat, ei victoriam dedit (= a quā parte stabat), Liv. 21, 10, 9; cf.: turbam, nec satis fido animo, unde pugnabat, stantem, in fugam averterunt, id. 25, 15, 13: ut unde stetisset, eo se victoria transferret, on whose side, Just. 5, 4, 12.—b. In partic., jurid. t. t.: unde petitur, of whom demand is made, i. e. the defendant: si ambo pares essent, illi, unde petitur, potius credendum esse, Cato ap. Gell. 14, 2, 26; cf.:
causam dicere Prius unde petitur, aurum quare sit suom, Quam ille qui petit, unde is sit thesaurus sibi, Ter. Eun. prol. 11 sq.: ego omnibus, unde petitur, hoc consilium dederim, Cic. Fam. 7, 11, 1: postulabat ut illi, unde peteretur, vetus exceptio daretur, id. de Or. 1, 37, 168. —2. Absol.
a. In a direct interrog.:
unde haec (patera) igitur est? Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 158; cf. id. Bacch. 3, 6, 10: redde, ut huic reddatur. Strob. Unde? id. Aul. 5, 20: Pi. Bonum habe animum. Mn. Unde habeam? id. ib. 4, 3, 17; id. Cas. 2, 2, 25: unde iste amor tam improvisus, Cic. Agr. 2, 22, 60; Quint. 11, 1, 54: unde sed hos novi? Ov. M. 9, 508.—With gentium: De. Face id ut paratum jam sit. Li. Unde gentium? De. Me defraudato, Plaut. As. 1, 1, 77; Tert. Pall. 4.—b. In an indirect interrog.:
ut ex ipsā quaeras, unde hunc (anulum) habuerit, Ter. Heaut. 4, 1, 45: quaerere, unde se ac suos tueri possit, Liv. 5, 4, 5: unde concilietur risus ... difficillimum dicere, Quint. 6, 3, 35: si cogitaverimus, unde et quousque jam provecta sit orandi facultas, id. 2, 16, 18: unde sit infamis ... Discite, Ov. M. 4, 285; cf. flor. 3, 12, 8 sqq.—B. Indef.: unde unde for undecumque, from wherever, whencesoever, from whatever quarter (only poet. and in post-class. prose):
et quaerendum unde unde foret nervosius illud, Cat. 67, 27: qui nisi ... Mercedem aut numos unde unde extricat, etc., Hor. S. 1, 3, 88: nec tamen vindictae solacium unde unde spernendum est, App. M. 5, p. 165: qui malum etsi ipse non fecit, tamen a quocumque et unde unde passus est fieri, Tert. adv. Herm. 10.—2. So, unde alone (late Lat.;
perh. only in Tert.): certe unde sunt ista, signis potius et ostentis deputanda, Tert. Anim. 51 fin.: quamquam possimus unde illas prolatas aestimare, dum ne ex nihilo, id. adv. Herm. 22 med.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
unde adv.
for * cunde; 2 CA-.
I. I. Of place. — Relat., from which place, whence : nec enim inde venit, unde mallem: ut eo restituerentur (Galli), unde deiecti essent: eodem, unde erant profectae (naves), Cs.: loca superiora, unde erat propinquus despectus in mare, Cs.: arbor, unde auri aura refulsit, V.: e maioribus castris, unde antea cessatum fuerat, circumductae copiae, i. e. from the place at which , etc., L.—Interrog, whence? from what place? : unde deiectus est Cinna? ex urbe . . . unde deiecti Galli? a Capitolio: Unde is? T.: Qui genus? unde domo? from what country? V.: ego instare, ut mihi responderet, quis esset, ubi esset, unde esset: quaere unde domo (sit), i. e. where he lives , H.: unde initium belli fieret, explorabant, Cs.—
II. II. Of source or cause.— Relat., from the point at which, from whom, from which : e praedonibus, Unde emerat, T.: qui eum necasset, unde ipse natus esset, whose son : hem, mea lux, unde omnes opem petere solebant: hi, unde ne hostium quidem legati arcentur, pulsi, L.: Est unde haec fiant, i. e. I have the means to do this , T.: quod, unde agger omnino comportari posset, nihil erat reliquum, Cs.: unde ius stabat, ei victoriam dedit, to the side which was in the right , L.— Esp., in law, in the phrase, unde petitur, he of whom demand is made, the defendant : causam dicere Prius unde petitur (opp. qui petit), T.: ego omnibus, unde petitur, hoc consili dederim.—Interrog, whence? how? from what source? : unde iste amor tam improvisus: Unde sed hos novi? O.: ut ex ipsā quaeras, unde hunc (anulum) habuerit, T.: quaerere, unde se ac suos tueri possit, by what means , L.: Unde sit infamis . . . Discite, O.—Indef., in the phrase, unde unde, whencesoever, from one source or another : Qui nisi . . . Mercedem aut nummos unde unde extricat, etc., H.
Origins
From earlier cunde, from a declined form of quī (“which, what, where”) and a demonstrative suffix *-de. See ubi for the loss of c and compare ali-cunde and sī-cunde.
Descendants
- Catalanon
- Frenchdont
- Italianonde
- Italiandonde
- Occitanont
- Portugueseonde
- Romanianunde
- Sardinianabundi
- Spanishonde
- Spanishdonde