Italian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Old Occitan ploja, from Vulgar Latin *ploia, *plovia, from Classical Latin pluvia (rain).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈplɔ.ja/
  • Rhymes: -ɔja
  • Hyphenation: plò‧ia

Noun edit

ploia f (plural ploie)

  1. (obsolete) rain
    Synonyms: pioggia, (regional or literary) piova
    • c. 13161321, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XIV”, in Paradiso [Heaven]‎[1], lines 25–27; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎[2], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
      Qual si lamenta perché qui si moia
      per viver colà sù, non vide quive
      lo refrigerio de l’etterna ploia.
      Those who lament that here we die,
      in order to live up there, never saw
      the coolness of the eternal rain here.

Further reading edit

  • ploia in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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