waterfall
waterfall
subs.
V. κᾰτᾰβασμός, ὁ ; see cataract.
subs.
V. κᾰτᾰβασμός, ὁ ; see cataract.
WATERFALL
dejectus aquae (the falling of water): aquae ex edito desilientes (water itself falling from a height; comparative Plin. Ep. 5 6 37): ☞ cataracta (καταῥῥάκτης a waterfall in general in the Greek) is used in Latin only of the waterfalls of the Nile. The waterfall of the Nile Nilus cadens.
dejectus aquae (the falling of water): aquae ex edito desilientes (water itself falling from a height; comparative Plin. Ep. 5 6 37): ☞ cataracta (καταῥῥάκτης a waterfall in general in the Greek) is used in Latin only of the waterfalls of the Nile. The waterfall of the Nile Nilus cadens.
waterfall:
1. dejectus aquae (the falling of water): Sen. Ep. 56, 3.
2. desiliens aqua: a place wet with much spray from a lofty w., locus aspergine multa uvidus ex alto desilientis aquae, Ov. F. 4, 427: cf. a description of an artificial cascade in Plin. Ep. 5, 6, 24.
3. *cătăracta (in class. Lat. only of the Falls of the Nile, but used once in Plin. Ep. 10, 69, 4 of a sluice, flood-*gate).
1. dejectus aquae (the falling of water): Sen. Ep. 56, 3.
2. desiliens aqua: a place wet with much spray from a lofty w., locus aspergine multa uvidus ex alto desilientis aquae, Ov. F. 4, 427: cf. a description of an artificial cascade in Plin. Ep. 5, 6, 24.
3. *cătăracta (in class. Lat. only of the Falls of the Nile, but used once in Plin. Ep. 10, 69, 4 of a sluice, flood-*gate).