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- Latin · borrowed frominundātus
- English todayinundate
First attested in 1623; borrowed from Latin inundātus, the perfect passive participle of inundō (“to flood, overflow”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from in- + undō (“to overflow, wave”), from unda (“wave”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.