pluviosus

Latin

Etymology

From pluvia (“rain”) +‎ -ōsus, from pluvius (“rainy, bringing rain”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /plu.u̯iˈoː.sus/, [pɫ̪uː̯iˈoːs̠ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /plu.viˈo.sus/, [pluviˈɔːs̬us]

Adjective

pluviōsus (feminine pluviōsa, neuter pluviōsum); first/second-declension adjective

1. Full of rain, rainy.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	pluviōsus	pluviōsa	pluviōsum		pluviōsī	pluviōsae	pluviōsa
genitive	pluviōsī	pluviōsae	pluviōsī		pluviōsōrum	pluviōsārum	pluviōsōrum
dative	pluviōsō	pluviōsae	pluviōsō		pluviōsīs
accusative	pluviōsum	pluviōsam	pluviōsum		pluviōsōs	pluviōsās	pluviōsa
ablative	pluviōsō	pluviōsā	pluviōsō		pluviōsīs
vocative	pluviōse	pluviōsa	pluviōsum		pluviōsī	pluviōsae	pluviōsa

Related terms

• pluvia
• pluviālis
• pluviāticus
• pluviātilis
• pluvius

Descendants

• Aragonese: plevioso
• Aromanian: pluios, pluiosu
• Asturian: lluviosu
• Catalan: plujós
• English: pluvious (borrowing)
• Franco-Provençal: plogiox
• French: pluvieux (borrowing), pluviôse (borrowing)
• Friulian: ploiôs
• Galician: chuvioso
• Italian: piovoso, pioggioso
• Occitan: plujós, plojós
• Old French: plujos, pluios
• Portuguese: chuvoso, pluvioso (borrowing)
• Romanian: ploios
• Sardinian: projosu, proxiosu
• Sicilian: chiuvusu
• Spanish: lluvioso, pluvioso (borrowing)

References

• “pluviosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pluviosus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.