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Latin
Etymology
unda + -ōsus
Adjective
undōsus (feminine undōsa, neuter undōsum, comparative undōsior, superlative undōsissimus); first/second-declension adjective
- abounding in waves, full of waves, flowing water, etc., wavy, stormy, surging, billowy
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 4.311–313:
- “ Quid, sī nōn arva aliēna domōsque
ignōtās peterēs, sed Troia antīqua manēret,
Troia per undōsum peterētur classibus aequor?”- “Tell me why? – If you were not seeking foreign fields and unknown abodes, but instead ancient Troy remained standing, whyever would you aim your ships homewards across a storm-tossed sea?”
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- “undosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “undosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- undosus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.