undosus

Latin

Etymology

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.

	masculine	feminine	neuter	masculine	feminine	neuter
	singular			plural
nominative	undōsus	undōsa	undōsum	undōsī	undōsae	undōsa
genitive	undōsī	undōsae	undōsī	undōsōrum	undōsārum	undōsōrum
dative	undōsō	undōsae	undōsō	undōsīs
accusative	undōsum	undōsam	undōsum	undōsōs	undōsās	undōsa
ablative	undōsō	undōsā	undōsō	undōsīs
vocative	undōse	undōsa	undōsum	undōsī	undōsae	undōsa

Descendants

Aromanian: undos
Catalan: ondós
Italian: ondoso
Portuguese: undoso
Romanian: undos
Spanish: ondoso, undoso

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.