WAVE Copy link • WAVE 1. s. unda (the proper word; produced by the regular motion of the sea, or gentle action of the air): fluctus, -us (billow, raised by storms). Full of waves, undosus: fluctuosus: to move in waves, undare: fluctuare: to make waves, fluctus ciere, movere: to be tossed in the waves, fluctuare: fluctibus jactari (Cic.): the wind rolls the waves upon the shore, ventus crebros ex alto fluctus in litus evolvit (Curt.): the waves break upon the rocks, fluctus franguntur a saxo (Cic.): to be washed by the waves, fluctibus allui: in waves, undatim. 2. v. Intransitively. To move as a wave, play loosely, float, undare (as a gentle wave): fluctuare (as a billow); also, aestuare (of very violent motion). Corn waves, segetes undant: hair waves, coma fluitat, defluit de humeris alicujus: a garment waves, vestis sinuatur, undat. Transitively. To move to and fro, agitare: movere: to wave a sword, ensem rotare: to wave the hand, manum jactare. To omit, pass over, Vid.