undique
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Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈʊn.dɪ.kʷɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈun.di.kʷe]
Adverb
[edit]undique (not comparable)
- from or on all sides; from every direction
- c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.2:
- Id hōc facilius iīs persuāsit, quod undique locī natūrā Helvētiī continentur: […] .
- He persuaded them of this more easily, because the Helvetii are confined on all sides by the nature of the terrain: […] .
- Id hōc facilius iīs persuāsit, quod undique locī natūrā Helvētiī continentur: […] .
- all over; all around, in every place, everywhere
- 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, 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
[edit]References
[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