pluvia

Interlingua

Etymology

From Latin pluvia (“rain”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpluvja/

Noun

pluvia (plural pluvias)

1. rain

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Latin

Alternative forms

• *plovia > *ploia (Vulgar Latin)

Etymology

Feminine form of pluvius.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈplu.u̯i.a/, [ˈpɫ̪ʊu̯iä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈplu.vi.a/, [ˈpluːviä]

Noun

pluvia f (genitive pluviae); first declension

1. rain
   • c. 99 BCE – 55 BCE, Lucretius, De rerum natura 6.671:

     tempestātēs pluviae

     tempests of rain

2. (later) a shower (of something)

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pluvia	pluviae
Genitive	pluviae	pluviārum
Dative	pluviae	pluviīs
Accusative	pluviam	pluviās
Ablative	pluviā	pluviīs
Vocative	pluvia	pluviae

Synonyms

• imber

Derived terms

• pluviālis
• pluviāticus

• pluviātilis
• pluviōsus

Related terms

• pluvius
• pluit

Descendants

Descendants

• Common Romanian:
  • Aromanian: ploae, ploai
  • Romanian: ploaie
• Emilian: piôva
• Italo-Dalmatian:
  • Corsican: pioghja
  • Dalmatian: pluaja
  • Istriot: piova, peiòva
  • Italian: pioggia, piova
  • Neapolitan: chioggia
  • Sicilian: chioggia, chiova, chioggi
• Lombard: piöva
• Navarro-Aragonese:
  • Aragonese: plevia, plebia, plevida
• Old French: pluie, ploige, pleuge
  • Bourguignon: pleuge
  • Gallo: pieil
  • Middle French: pluye
    • French: pluie
      • ⇒ Haitian Creole: lapli
  • Norman: plyie, pllie
  • Walloon: plouve (from a local variant form)
• Old Leonese:
  • Asturian: lluvia, chuvia
  • Extremaduran: lluvia
  • Leonese: lluvia, chuvia
  • Mirandese: chuba
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: pluja
  • Occitan: pluèja, ploja, pluèia, pluòja
• Old Portuguese: chuvia, chovia
  • Galician: chuvia, choiva
  • Portuguese: chuva, chuiva
    • Guinea-Bissau Creole: tcuba
    • Kabuverdianu: tchuva, txuba, txuva
• Old Spanish: lluvia
  • Ladino: luvya (Latin spelling)
  • Spanish: lluvia
• Piedmontese: pieuva
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: ploie, ploe
  • Ladin: pievia
  • Romansch: plievgia, plievia, plövgia
• Sardinian: pròia, proìda, pióida, próghia, proja
• Venetian: pióva
• → Esperanto: pluvo
  • → Ido: pluvo
• → Interlingua: pluvia
• → Interlingue: pluvie

Adjective

pluvia

1. inflection of pluvius:
   1. feminine nominative/vocative singular
   2. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Adjective

pluviā

1. feminine ablative singular of pluvius

References

• pluvia in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pluvia in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pluvia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin pluvia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈplubja/, [ˈplu.β̞ja]
• Rhymes: -ubja

Noun

pluvia f (plural pluvias)

1. rain
2. shower (precipitation)

Related terms

• llover
• lluvia
• pluvial
• pluvioso

 

Further reading

• “pluvia” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.