UNDINE


Meaning of UNDINE in English

[ 'ʌndi:n ]

■ noun a female spirit or nymph imagined as inhabiting water.

Origin

C19: from mod. L. undina (a word invented by the 16th-cent. Swiss physician Paracelsus), from L. unda 'a wave'.

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