[ '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'.
[ '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'.
Concise Oxford English vocab. Сжатый оксфордский словарь английского языка. 2004