inundatio
πενία μόνα τὰς τέχνας ἐγείρει → poverty alone promotes skilled work, necessity is the mother of invention, necessity is the mother of all invention, poverty is the mother of invention, out of necessity comes invention, out of necessity came invention, frugality is the mother of invention
Latin > English
inundatio inundationis N F :: flood
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
ĭnundātĭo: ōnis, f. inundo,
I an overflowing, inundating, inundation (postAug.): fluminum, Col. 3, 11, 8: coërcere, Suet. Aug. 30: inundationes Tiberis, id. Oth. 8: Nili, Plin. Pan. 30 fin.; Cassiod. Var. 3, 42: terrarum, the deluge, Plin. 5, 13, 14, § 69; Sol. 34, 1. —
II Transf., of a crowd of people, Schol. Juv. 3, 249.— Of horses: inundatione equorum ejus operiet te pulvis, Vulg. Ezech. 26, 10.—Of troubles, sorrow, Vulg. Job, 21, 17.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
ĭnundātĭō,¹³ ōnis, f. (inundo), inondation, débordement : Col. Rust. 3, 11, 8 ; Suet. Aug. 30 || terrarum Plin. 5, 68, déluge || [fig.] déluge de paroles : Chalc. Tim. 19 E.
Latin > German (Georges)
inundātio, ōnis, f. (inundo), die Überschwemmung, Sen. u.a.: inundationes fluminum, Colum.: inundationes coërcere, Suet: cum inundatio ex lacu Albano facta esset, Liv. epit: inundationibus quicquid habitatur obducet, Sen.: m. subj. Genet., maris, Sen.: amnis, Val. Max.: Tiberis, Capit. u. Porph. Hor.: aquarum, Veget. mil.: fluminum inundationes, Colum.: Tiberis inundationes, Suet.: m. obj. Genet., terrarum, Plin. 5, 68. – übtr., a) v. einer Menschenmenge, quanta inundatio (Zuströmen) sportulam accipientium, Schol. Iuven. 3, 249. – b) v. der Rede, das Überströmen, sermonis, Wortschwall, Chalcid. Tim. 19 E.
