unde

From Old Norse unna, from Proto-Germanic *unnaną, cognate with Norwegian unne, Swedish unna, German gönnen. Related to the Danish words yndig, ynde, gunst.

• IPA^(key): /onə/, [ˈɔnə]
• Homophone: onde

unde (past tense undte, past participle undt)

1. (transitive) to wish, grant, not grudge (to find joy in a fortune enjoyed by another; to feel that another has deserved something)
   • 2011, Sara Blædel, Kald mig prinsesse, Art People, →ISBN:

     Under jeg hende ikke at blive lykkelig? tænkte hun.

     Do I begrudge her happiness?

   • 2017, Diana Benneweis, Alting har sin pris, Lindhardt og Ringhof, →ISBN:

     Jeg er sikker på og glad for, at Ilse fik en oplevelse for livet. Det under jeg hende.

     I am sure and glad that Ilse had the experience of her life. I think she deserved it.

   • 2000, En lykkelig kvinde: roman, Gyldendal A/S, →ISBN, page 11:

     Min kollega Miriam trænger til aflastning og det under jeg hende fuldt ud.

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   • 1837, Hans Christian Andersen, Improvisatoren: original roman i to dele, page 214:

     Det var daarligt gjort!' svarede han og loe, nei, da under jeg hende en bedre Mand, end mig.'

     That was ill done! he replied and laughed, no, then I wish her a better man/husband than me.

   • 2017, Marie Louise Fischer, Tvillingerne, Lindhardt og Ringhof, →ISBN:

     Den triumf under jeg hende ikke.

     I find no joy in her triumph.

2. (obsolete) to like, to love
   • 1862, Danmarks gamle folkeviser, page 25:

     Valdemar lader Tove kalde, byder hende sidde hos og spørger hende, hvor vel hun under Sofie, hvortil Тove svarer: Saa vel under jeg hende som min egen Søn Кristoffer; jeg vil give hende Gangeren graa og Dronningenavnet oven i Кjøbet.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 2016, Thit Jensen, Jørgen Lykke: bind 2, Lindhardt og Ringhof, →ISBN:

     »Da under jeg hende bedre end Albrecht Skeel.«

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• forunde
• misunde

From earlier cunde, from a declined form of quī (“which, what, where”) and a demonstrative suffix *-de. See ubi for the loss of c and compare ali-cunde and sī-cunde.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈʊn.dɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈun.de]

unde (not comparable)

1. (interrogative or relative) whence, from where:
   1. (of movement) of the place from which someone or something comes from

      Antonym: quō

      • c. 190 BCE, Plautus, Bacchides 5.1.33:

        Et tu. Unde agis? ― Vnde homo miser atque infortunatus.

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      • c. 35 BCE, Horatius, Sermones 1.9.60-63:

        Ecce Fuscus Aristius occurrit […] Cōnsistimus. “Unde venīs?” et “quō tendis?” rogat et respondet.

        Behold! Fuscus Aristius upcometh […] We stop. “Whence comest thou?” and “Whither headest?”, he asketh and answerth.

   2. (of location) of the place from which anything is done or takes place

      See also: ex

      • c. 27 CE – 66 CE, Petronius, Satyricon 124.1:

        Haec ut Cocyti tenebras et Tartara liquit,
        alta petit gradiens iuga nobilis Appennini,
        unde omnes terras atque omnia litora posset
        aspicere ac toto fluitantes orbe catervas, […]

        (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. (transferred senses):
   1. (interrogative) of what origin, country, family, stock
      • c. 27 CE – 66 CE, Petronius, Satyricon 124.3:

        Ex praescripto ergo consilii communis exaggerata verborum volubilitate, unde aut qui essemus haud dubie credentibus indicavimus.

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   2. (interrogative) out of what, from what origin or source; (loosely) by what means, on account of what, how
      • 8 CE, Ovidius, Metamorphoses 4.285–287:

        Unde sit infamis, quare male fortibus undis
        Salmacis enervet tactosque remolliat artus,
        discite.

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      • c. 27 CE – 66 CE, Petronius, Satyricon 50.5:

        Et ne me putetis nesapium esse, valde bene scio, unde primum Corinthea [vasa] nata sint.

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      • c. 27 CE – 66 CE, Petronius, Satyricon 140.15:

        Vnde plani autem, unde levatores viverent, nisi aut locellos aut sonantes aere sacellos pro hamis in turbam mitterent?

        (please add an English translation of this quotation)

      1. (conjunctive, often allongside fit (“it happens”)) for or from which cause: therefore, wherefore, whence
         • c. 95 CE, Quintilianus, Institutio Oratoria 2.11.7:

           Unde fit, ut dissoluta et ex diversis congesta oratio cohaerere non possit […]

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         • c. 100 CE – c. 130 CE, Juvenalis, Saturae 1.4.96–98:

           sed olim
           prodigio par est in nobilitate senectus,
           unde fit ut malim fraterculus esse gigantis.

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         • c. 500 CE, Priscianus, Institutiones grammaticae 3.5:

           Sed superlativus multo alios excellere significat, comparativus vero potest et parvo superantem demonstrare, unde etiam diminutionem apud nos iure accipit: ‘maiusculus’, ‘minusculus’, ‘tardiusculus’.

           (please add an English translation of this quotation)

3. (relative, pro-prepositional) stands for either ex, ab, dē + quō/quā/quibus:
   1. (of origin, source, departure or ablation) from, or of, whom or which
      • c. 195 BCE, Plautus, Trinummus 1.2.117–122:

        flens me obsecravit suo ne gnato crederem [se domi thensaurum celavisse]
        neu quoiquam unde ad eum id posset permanascere.
        Nunc si ille huc salvos revenit, reddam suom sibi;
        si quid eo fuerit, certe illius filiae,
        quae mihi mandatast, habeo dotem unde dem,
        ut eam in se dignam condicionem conlocem.

        (please add an English translation of this quotation)

      • c. 190 BCE, Plautus, Epidicus 80:

        Numquam hominem quemquam conveni, unde abierim lubentius.

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      • 55 BCE, Cicero, De oratore 1.67:

        […] ; hoc profecto efficiet ut, quamcumque rem a quoquo cognoverit, de ea multo dicat ornatius quam ille ipse, unde cognorit.

        (please add an English translation of this quotation)

      • c. 27 CE – 66 CE, Petronius, Satyricon 66.7:

        Etiam in alveo circumlata sunt oxycomina, unde quidam etiam improbi ternos pugnos sustulerunt.

        (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   2. by whose means, thanks to whom or which
      • c. 35 BCE, Horatius, Sermones 1.6.12–13:

        Valeri genus, unde Superbus
        Tarquinius regno pulsus fugit

        (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   3. (in taking from a bigger whole) out of which
      • c. 27 CE – 66 CE, Petronius, Satyricon 137.6:

        Ecce duos aureos pono, unde possitis et deos et anseres emere.

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      2. (fused relative) what is necessary (to), enough (to) (literally, “somewhere or something (indefinite) out of which […] ”)
         • c. 200 BCE – 190 BCE, Plautus, Captivi 850:

           Scis bene esse, si sit unde [esse possis].

           (please add an English translation of this quotation)

         • c. 195 BCE, Plautus, Trinummus 1.2.117–122:

           flens me obsecravit suo ne gnato crederem [se domi thensaurum celavisse]
           neu quoiquam unde ad eum id posset permanascere.
           Nunc si ille huc salvos revenit, reddam suom sibi;
           si quid eo fuerit, certe illius filiae,
           quae mihi mandatast, habeo dotem unde dem,
           ut eam in se dignam condicionem conlocem.

           (please add an English translation of this quotation)

         • c. 27 CE – 66 CE, Petronius, Satyricon 45.6:

           Ferrum optimum daturus est [Titus], sine fuga, carnarium in medio, ut amphitheater videat. Et habet unde.

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         • c. 27 CE – 66 CE, Petronius, Satyricon 46.2:

           Inveniemus ergo unde saturi fiamus.

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• The adverbs unde and undecumque are sometimes used with gentium (genitive plural of gens (“nation”)) to denote the same meaning as “whence on earth”, “ whence in the world” (see also ubī̆ (“where”) and derivatives).
• sense 3.3.1 best translates to French de quoi.

• “unde”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “unde”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “unde”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • it follows from this that..: ex quo, unde, hinc efficitur ut
    
  • but to return from the digression we have been making: sed redeat, unde aberravit oratio
    
  • but to return from the digression we have been making: sed ad id, unde digressi sumus, revertamur
    
  • but to return from the digression we have been making: verum ut ad id, unde digressa est oratio, revertamur
    
  • I have no means, no livelihood: non habeo, qui (unde) vivam
    

• unðe

From Old French und, from Latin unda.

• IPA^(key): /ˈund(ə)/

unde (plural undes)

1. (rare) wave

• English: und

• “unde, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 11 July 2018.

• onde

From Latin unda.

unde oblique singular, f (oblique plural undes, nominative singular unde, nominative plural undes)

1. wave (motion of a liquid)

• French: onde

• une — regional and archaic

Inherited from Latin unde. Cognate with Sardinian unde and Sicilian unni.

• IPA^(key): [ˈun.de]

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unde

1. where

   Unde ai fost ieri?

   Where were you yesterday?

• undeva
• oriunde
• altundeva

• undi (“Campidanese”)
• umbe

From Latin unde.

• IPA^(key): /ˈunde/, [ˈuɳ.ɖɛ]

unde

1. where

   Synonym: ue

unde

1. (interrogative) where, whereabouts