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undo, to rise in waves, throw up waves, surge, swell

Frieze-Dennison Vergil

undō, āvī, ātus, 1, n.: to rise in waves; of flame, smoke, dust, etc., surge, 2.609; overflow, stream forth, burst forth, gush, 10.908; boil, seethe, 6.218; of lines or reins, hang free, flow, 5.146. (unda)

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Undat Verb: present active indicative 3rd singular of undo

See Undat in Morpho

undo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. n. and a. [unda].
  • I Neutr., to rise in waves or surges, to throw up waves, to surge, swell (poet. and in post-Aug. prose).
    • A Lit.: undantem salum, Enn. ap. Non. 223, 24 (Trag. v. 226 Vahl.); cf.: undanti in freto, Att. ap. Cic. N. D. 2, 35, 89: solet aestus aequinoctialis ... undare, Sen. Q. N. 3, 28, 6: ad caelum undabat vortex, Verg. A. 12, 673: aëna undantia flammis, id. ib. 6, 218.—
    • B Transf.
      • 1 To overflow with, be full of, abound in any thing, = abundare: regio Undat equis floretque viris, Val. Fl. 1, 539: vultus sanguine, Stat. Th. 1, 449: silva favis, Claud. Rapt. Pros. 3, 25: ima (aedium) viris, id. VI. Cons. Hon. 545.—
      • 2 To wave, undulate: vidimus undantem ruptis fornacibus Aetnam, Verg. G. 1, 472: undantes flammae, Sil. 9, 446: undante fumo, Sen. Troad. 19: undans buxo Cytorus, Verg. G. 2, 437: undans chlamys, Plaut. Ep. 3, 3, 55 (436): undantes habenae, waving, flowing, hanging loosely, Verg. A. 12, 471; so, undantia lora, id. ib. 5, 146: ipsa (puella) decenter undabat, undulated, Ap. Met. 2, 7, 14.—
    • C Trop., to waver, fluctuate, be agitated: undans curis, Val. Fl. 5, 304: undantes spumis furialibus irae, Claud. in Ruf. 1, 76.—
  • II Act. (very rare), to overflow, inundate, deluge: sanguine campos, Stat. Ach. 1, 87: sinus cruore, Claud. in Ruf. 2, 67.—P. a.: undātus, a, um, in a wavy or wave-like form: concharum genera imbricatim undata, cancellatim reticulata, Plin. 9, 33, 52, § 103.
  • —Hence, undan-ter, adv., in a waving manner, like waves: capillus undanter fluens, Ap. Met. 2, 16, 21 (al. fluenter undans): evomere talia, Mart. Cap. 2, § 138.

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