undine
/ˈʌndiːn
/noun
A female spirit or nymph imagined as inhabiting water.The elements were inhabited by spirits - the air by sylphs, the water by nymphs or undines, the earth by gnomes, the fire by salamanders....
- Rilleta thought she saw the undine leaping among the water drops, her face alive as a fox's with mischief.
- You can be anything that you wish, such as an undine or elf.
Origin
Early 19th century: from modern Latin undina (a word invented by Paracelsus), from Latin unda 'a wave'.
- Warm Springs
- warmth
- warm the cockles of one's heart
- warm to/towards (or warm up to/towards)
- warm up
- warm work
- warn
- warner
- Warner Brothers
- Warner, Pop
- Warner Robins
- Warne, Shane
- warning
- warning bell
- warning coloration
- warningly
- warning track
- warning triangle
- warn someone off
- warn someone off the course
- War of 1812
- war of attrition
- War Office
- war of nerves
- war of words