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|lshtext=<b>unda</b>: 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]],<br /><b>I</b> a [[wave]], [[billow]], [[surge]] (syn. [[fluctus]]).<br /><b>I</b> 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.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Transf.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In gen.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>a</b> 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.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>b</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.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 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.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>3</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In [[architecture]], for the Gr. [[cymatium]] (κυματίον, a [[little]] [[wave]]), a [[talon]], ogee, Vitr. 5, 7.—<br /><b>II</b> 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.
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