Undine

See also: undine and undīne

English

Etymology

From German Undine (“undine”), first used as a given name in the novel Undine by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué and in 19th-century operas based on the book.

Proper noun

Undine

1. (rare outside fiction) A female given name from Latin.
   • 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.

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʊnˈdiːnə/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: Un‧di‧ne

Noun

Undine f (genitive Undine, plural Undinen)

1. an undine

Declension

Declension of Undine [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Undine	die	Undinen
genitive	einer	der	Undine	der	Undinen
dative	einer	der	Undine	den	Undinen
accusative	eine	die	Undine	die	Undinen

Descendants

• English: undine
• Japanese: ウンディーネ (undīne)