Undine
name, noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A female water-sprite or nymph.
- 2 any of various female water spirits wordnet
- 3 The elemental being of water.
- 4 a small flask used to apply lotions to the eye.
- 1 A female given name from Latin. regional
"The child, on the contrary, would by no means listen to this, declaring she had been called Undine by her parents, and Undine she would still be called. Now this seemed to me a Pagan name, which stood in no calendar, and therefore I took counsel of a priest in the city."
Example
More examples"The child, on the contrary, would by no means listen to this, declaring she had been called Undine by her parents, and Undine she would still be called. Now this seemed to me a Pagan name, which stood in no calendar, and therefore I took counsel of a priest in the city."
Etymology
From German Undine, from New Latin undīna, from Latin unda (“wave”).
From German Undine (“undine”), first used as a given name in the novel Undine by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué and in 19th-century operas based on the book.
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