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/, [ˈpluːviɑ]

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

• 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
• Proto-Romanian:
  • Aromanian: ploae, ploai
  • Romanian: ploaie
• 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. feminine nominative singular of pluvius
2. feminine vocative singular of pluvius
3. neuter nominative plural of pluvius
4. neuter accusative plural of pluvius
5. neuter vocative plural of pluvius

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

 

References

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