pioggia
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See also: Pioggia
Italian[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- piova (literary or regional)
Etymology[edit]
From Vulgar Latin *ploia < *plovia (probably influenced by the verb *plovere) for Classical Latin pluvia (“rain”). Compare Sardinian proja, French pluie, Catalan pluja, Romanian ploaie, also Portuguese chuva, Spanish lluvia.
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pioggia f (plural piogge)
- rain
- (figurative) shower (large quantity)
- Synonym: sacco
- 2003, Antonio Tabucchi, chapter XVIII, in Sostiene Pereira : una testimonianza [Pereira Declares], Rome: La biblioteca di Repubblica, published 1994, →ISBN, page 116:
- Il direttore gli telefonò una mattina per congratularsi del racconto di Balzac, perché disse che la redazione principale aveva ricevuto una pioggia di lettere di complimenti.
- The editor-in-chief called him one morning to congratulate him on the Balzac story, saying that the head office had been simply inundated with compliments.
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Further reading[edit]
- pioggia in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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