inundatio

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.