pluie

French

Etymology

From Middle French pluye, from Old French pluie, from a Vulgar Latin *ploia < *plovia, from Latin pluvia (with influence from Vulgar Latin *plovō, plovere). Compare Occitan pluèja, Catalan pluja, Italian pioggia, Romanian ploaie, also Portuguese chuva, Spanish lluvia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plɥi/

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• Rhymes: -i

Noun

pluie f (plural pluies)

1. rain

   Des pluies torrentielles se sont abattues la semaine dernière.

   Torrential rain struck down last week.

Related terms

• pleuvoir
• pluvieux

Further reading

• “pluie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Old French

Alternative forms

• ploige, pleuge

Etymology

From a Vulgar Latin *ploia < *plovia, from Latin pluvia (with influence from Vulgar Latin *plovō, plovere).

Noun

pluie oblique singular, f (oblique plural pluies, nominative singular pluie, nominative plural pluies)

1. rain

Related terms

• plovoir, plover, pluveir
• plujos, pluios

Descendants

• Bourguignon: pleuge
• Gallo: pieil
• Middle French: pluye
  • French: pluie
• Norman: plyie, pllie
• Walloon: plouve (from a local variant form)