pluit
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
- pluō (takes a subject)
Etymology edit
From Proto-Italic *plowō, from Proto-Indo-European *plew- (“to flow, float, wash”); see also Latin linter (“bath, trough, boat”), Ancient Greek πλύνω (plúnō, “to wash”), Lithuanian pìlti (“to pour”) and German fließen (“to flow”).[1] See Old Armenian լուանամ (luanam, “to wash”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈplu.it/, [ˈpɫ̪uɪt̪]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈplu.it/, [ˈpluːit̪]
Verb edit
pluit (present infinitive pluere, perfect active pluit or plūvit); third conjugation, impersonal, no passive, no supine stem
- (impersonal) to rain; to be raining
Conjugation edit
| Conjugation of pluit (third conjugation, no supine stem, impersonal, active only) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | — | — | pluit | — | — | — |
| imperfect | — | — | pluēbat | — | — | — | |
| future | — | — | pluet | — | — | — | |
| perfect | — | — | pluit, plūvit |
— | — | — | |
| pluperfect | — | — | pluerat, plūverat |
— | — | — | |
| future perfect | — | — | pluerit, plūverit |
— | — | — | |
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | — | — | pluat | — | — | — |
| imperfect | — | — | plueret | — | — | — | |
| perfect | — | — | pluerit, plūverit |
— | — | — | |
| pluperfect | — | — | pluisset, plūvisset |
— | — | — | |
| imperative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| future | — | — | pluitō | — | — | — | |
| non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
| present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
| infinitives | pluere | pluisse, plūvisse |
— | — | — | — | |
| participles | pluēns | — | — | — | — | — | |
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||
| genitive | dative | accusative | ablative | accusative | ablative | ||
| pluendī | pluendō | pluendum | pluendō | — | — | ||
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- Vulgar Latin: *plovere (see there for further descendants)
References edit
- “pluit”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- pluit in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- pluit in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung