undique
Latin
editEtymology
editPronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈun.di.kʷe/, [ˈʊn̪d̪ɪkʷɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈun.di.kwe/, [ˈun̪d̪ikwe]
Adverb
editundique (not comparable)
- from all sides; from every direction
- all over; all around, in every place, everywhere
- 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 3.192–193:
- Postquam altum tenuēre ratēs, nec iam amplius ūllae
adpārent terrae, caelum undique et undique pontus- “After [our] ships held the deep, now neither [was there] any more sight of land: the sky [was] all around [us], and everywhere the sea.”
(An example of hyperbole or exaggeration in a figure of speech.)
- “After [our] ships held the deep, now neither [was there] any more sight of land: the sky [was] all around [us], and everywhere the sea.”
- Postquam altum tenuēre ratēs, nec iam amplius ūllae
- utterly, completely
- from every point of view, in all respects
Related terms
editReferences
edit- “undique”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “undique”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- undique in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be shut in on all sides by very high mountains: altissimis montibus undique contineri
- to win golden opinions from every one: omnium undique laudem colligere
- an ideal: undique expleta et perfecta forma
- to call up troops from all sides: evocare undique copias
- to be pressed on all sides: undique premi, urgeri (B. G. 2. 26)
- to be shut in on all sides by very high mountains: altissimis montibus undique contineri