inundo Latin · revision 33974

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=ine-pro *ud-ōr}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɪˈnʊn.doː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [iˈnun.do]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''inundō''' (present infinitive inundāre, perfect active inundāvī, supine inundātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|in-|undō|t2=to rise in waves, surge]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) Priscian already derived it from [[m|la|unda|t=wave]].^(TLL) [[m|la|undō]] is made from that noun, which goes back to [[itc-pro|*udōr]] and [[ine-pro|*ud-ōr|t=water]]; de Vaan thinks the ā-stem and the sense "wave" may come from an old collective meaning "body of water".^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's first citation is Cicero's ''De natura deorum'', of water flooding the earth.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is used of rivers or the sea flooding land, and absolutely of overflowing: Livy has the Tiber flooding the fields.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It also means to drench with a liquid, above all with blood: Virgil has ditches flooded with blood, and Curtius Rufus and Lactantius have plains drenched in gore.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Figuratively it is used of crowds that swarm over a place, as the armies with which Europe was flooded in Curtius Rufus and the Trojans pouring in again in Virgil,^(OLD 2012) and of feelings that overwhelm someone, as Petronius' Eumolpus flooded with resentment.^(OLD 2012) Stelten gives "overflow, flood" for Church Latin.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of water flooding the earth.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of ditches flooded with blood and of Trojans swarming in.^(OLD 2012)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy of the Tiber flooding the fields.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 1st century AD – Curtius Rufus of armies flooding Europe.^(OLD 2012)

+ * 1620s – [[m|en|inundate]] appears in English, from [[m|la|inundātus]] or as a back-formation from ''inundation''.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # ''(of rivers or the sea)'' To [[m|en|flood]], [[m|en|inundate]] (land); ''(intransitive)'' to overflow.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(figurative)'' To overwhelm, fill (with a feeling).^(OLD 2012)

+ # To drench, flood (with blood or another liquid); ''(intransitive)'' to be drenched.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To crowd or [[m|en|swarm]] over;^(OLD 2012) ''(intransitive)'' to swarm in.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[unda]]

+ * [[undō]]

+ * [[abundō]]

+ * [[redundō]]

+ * [[en|inundate]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}