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/, [ˈpɫ̪uː̯iä]
• (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

• Ibero-Romance:
  • Old Leonese: ?
    • Asturian: lluvia, chuvia
    • Extremaduran: lluvia
    • Leonese: lluvia, chuvia
    • Mirandese: chuba
  • 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
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *plovia
  • Istriot:
    • piova, peiòva
  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: piova
    • Sicilian: chiova
  • Padanian:
    • Emilian: piôva
    • Ladin: pievia
    • Ligurian: cieûvia
    • Lombard: piöva
    • Piedmontese: pieuva
    • Romansch: plievgia, plievia, plövgia
    • Venetian: pióva
  • Northern Gallo-Romance:
    • Franco-Provençal: pllove, ploive, pleivi, plleve, plevia
    • Lorrain: pllóv
    • Picard: pleuv
    • Walloon: plaiv, ploiv, pleuv, plleuv, plev, plouve
  • Southern Gallo-Romance:
    • Aragonese: plevia ⇒ plevida, plevita
    • Occitan:

      Auvergnat: plhuèva, pluèva

      Vivaro-Alpine: plòva

• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *ploia
  • Balkan Romance:
    • Aromanian: ploae, ploai
    • Romanian: ploaie
  • Dalmatian:
    • pluaja
  • Italo-Romance:
    • Corsican: pioghja
    • Italian: pioggia
    • Neapolitan: chioggia
    • Sicilian: chioggia, chioggi
  • Padanian:
    • Friulian: ploie, ploe
  • Northern Gallo-Romance:
    • Franco-Provençal: plloge
    • Old French: pluie, ploige, pleuge
      • Bourguignon: pleuge
      • Gallo: pieil
      • Middle French: pluye
        • French: pluie
          • ⇒ Haitian Creole: lapli
      • Norman: plyie, pllie
  • Southern Gallo-Romance:
    • Aragonese: pluya
    • Catalan: pluja
    • Occitan: plueja, plueia (all dialects except Gascon and Lengadocian)

      Auvergnat: pleja, pleia

      Gascon: ploja, pleja, pluja

      Languedocien: pluèja, pluòja, plèja, plèija

      Limousin: pleja, pleia

      Provençal: pluja, plòja

      Vivaro-Alpine: pleia, plòia, pluia

  • Insular Romance:
    • Sardinian: pròia, proìda, pióida, próghia, proja
• Borrowings:
  • → 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[homas] Lewis; Charles [Lancaster] Short (1879) […] A New Latin Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Chicago, Ill.: American Book Company; 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

Learned borrowing from Latin pluvia. Doublet of lluvia.

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