ploia
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Old Occitan ploja, from Vulgar Latin *ploia, *plovia, from Classical Latin pluvia (“rain”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ploia f (plural ploie)
- (obsolete) rain
- c. 1316–1321, 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.
- Those who lament that here we die,
Further reading edit
- ploia in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana