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.