Undine

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Undine (from Latin unda "wave") or Ondine (French) may refer to several things:

• Ondine (mythology) or Undine, a water nymph from German mythology
• Undine (novella) (1811), a novella by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué
• Undine (1816), an opera by E.T.A. Hoffmann based on de la Motte Fouqué's story
• Ondine (1843), a ballet by Jules Perrot and Cesare Pugni
• Undine (1845), an opera by Albert Lortzing also based on de la Motte Fouqué's tale
• Undine is also a book by Penni Russon. The sequel is Breathe.
• Undina (Russian: Ундина), also Undine, an opera (1846) by Alexei Lvov.
• Undina, also Undine or Ondine (Russian: Ундина) is an opera in 3 acts (1869) by Pyotr Tchaikovsky to the Russian libretto by Vladimir Sollogub, after Vasily Zhukovsky's translation of Friedrich de la Motte-Fouqué's Ondine.
• Ondine (1906), a movement of the piano piece Gaspard de la nuit by Maurice Ravel
• Undine (Flute Sonata), a Romantic sonata for solo flute by Carl Reinecke, inspired by the legend of the water nymph by the same name.
• Undine (Schreiner) (1928), an autobiographical book by Olive Schreiner
• Ondine (1939), a play by Jean Giraudoux
• Undine Leaves, a poem by Ingeborg Bachmann
• 92 Undina, an asteroid
• USS Undine, two ships in the United States Navy
• MV Undine, a ro-ro ferry (11854t, 1991) owned by Cobefret Ferries of Belgium
• The SS Undine, a ship piloted by the Raised Rats in the book Drowned Wednesday by Garth Nix
• Ondine (actor) (1937–1989), an actor
• Undine Spragg, ruthless heroine of Edith Wharton's 1913 novel satirizing the mores of American matrimony, The Custom of the Country
• Ondine, a record label.
• Undine, a character in various video games:
  • one of the eight elemental spirits in the Secret of Mana/Seiken Densetsu video game series
  • one of the four elemental spirits in the Arcana video game
  • a water spirit that can be summoned in Namco's Tales role-playing game series
  • one of the wing-spirits of Dizzy, a character in the Guilty Gear fighting game series
  • one of the four elementals in Lost Magic; attacks by biting
  • the water elemental in Vagrant Story
  • one of the four races in Oblivion in Primal
• Ondine's curse, a medical condition
• Undine (manga), the name for female gondola pilots in a manga [Japanese comic book] called "ARIA" which takes place in the future, on an ocean-filled terraformed Mars.