plovier

Old French

Alternative forms

• plover, pluvier

Etymology

From Medieval Latin pluviārius, probably from Latin pluvia (“rain”).

Noun

plovier oblique singular, m (oblique plural ploviers, nominative singular ploviers, nominative plural plovier)

1. plover (bird)
   • c. 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:

     Qui de l'alete d'un plovier
     Peissoit sor son poing l'esprevier

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Descendants

• French: pluvier
• → Middle Dutch: pluvier
  • Dutch: plevier
• → Middle English: plover, plewer, pluver, pluwer, plovere, ploware, plowere (Late Middle English)
  • English: plover
  • Scots: pliver, plivver