undu-, und- +

(Latin: > French: flow, wave, billow)


abound
1. To be abundant, or plentiful; to exist in large quantities.
2. To be present in large numbers, or to contain something in large numbers or amounts.
3. To be rich or well supplied: "The area abounds in trees."
abundance
1. A more than plentiful quantity of something.
2. A lifestyle with more than adequate material provisions.
3. A fullness of spirit that overflows.
4. The extent to which an element is present in the earth or in a rock.
5. The proportion of one isotope of an element, expressed by number of atoms, to the total quantity of the element.
6. Etymology: nothing suggests great abundance more vividly than overflowing waves; and that is the literal meaning of the word abundance.

In Latin, unda means "wave", poetically "sea". The Romans combined ab, "from", and unda into the word abundare, "to overflow"; literally, "to come from the waves" or "from the sea"; applied to anything very plentiful.

The stem of abundare resulted in the English verb abound, and a derivative provided the noun abundance. Inundate, "to flood", also comes from unda, as does undulate, "to move like the waves".

abundancy
Plentiful, or the opposite of scarcity.
Abundans cautela non nocet.
Abundant caution does not harm.

Also translated as, "You can't be too careful."

abundant
1. Present in great quantities; more than adequate; oversufficient.
2. Well-supplied; providing a more than plentiful supply of something.
abundantly
In an abundant manner, or fully sufficient, plentiful, and in copious supply.
exundate
1. To over flow.
2. To inundate.
exundation
An overflow, or an overflowing abundance.
inundant
1. Flooding or overflowing.
2. Overwhelming with force, numbers, etc.
inundate, inundating
1. To overwhelm someone with a huge quantity of things that must be dealt with: "The newspaper was inundated with letters of protest."
2. To fill, to flood, or to cover completely, usually with water: "There was so much rain, that our basement was inundated."
inundation
1. A condition in which water temporarily or permanently covers a land surface.
2. An accumulation of an overwhelming amount of things that someone must deal with; superabundance.
inundator
1. Anything that fills, or covers, something completely, usually with water.
2. That which fills something quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid.
inundatory
1. A flood or an over abundance of water.
2. A condition of superabundance.
ondograph
An instrument for graphically recording oscillatory variations, as in alternating currents.
redound
1. To have a particular consequence, usually something good or positive: "He made a decision that redounded to a better future."
2. To return to affect someone as a repercussion or a consequence; to have a good, or bad, effect or result.
3. Etymology: "to overflow," from Old French redonder, "overflow, abound" (12th century); from Latin redundare, "to overflow".

The meaning of "to flow" or "to go back" (to a place or person) is from 1382.


Inter-related cross references, directly or indirectly, involving word units meaning "more, plentiful, fullness, excessive, over flowing": copi-; exuber-; hyper-; multi-; opulen-; ple-; pleio-; plethor-; poly-; super-; total-; ultra-.


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