undine

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see also: Undine

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈʌndiːn/

Noun

undine (plural undines)

1. A female water-sprite or nymph.
2. The elemental being of water.
3. (medicine) a small flask used to apply lotions to the eye.

Translations

• French: ondine
• German: Undine
• Italian: ondina
• Portuguese: ondina
• Russian: ни́мфа
• Spanish: ondina

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Undine

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Proper noun

1. (rare outside fiction) A female given name.
   • 1818 Translation by George Soane of Undine (1811) by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, W.Simpkin and R. Marshall, pages 24-25:

     The child, on the contrary, would by no means listen to this, declaring she had been called Undine by her parents, and Undine she would still be called. Now this seemed to me a Pagan name, which stood in no calendar, and therefore I took counsel of a priest in the city.

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