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pluvia

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Interlingua

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Etymology

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From Latin pluvia (“rain”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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pluvia (plural pluvias)

  1. rain

Latin

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Etymology

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Short for tempestās pluvia ("rainy weather"), from pluvius (“rainy”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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pluvia f (genitive pluviae); first declension

  1. rain
    Synonyms: imber, tempestās pluvia
  2. (later) a shower (of something)

Declension

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First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative pluvia pluviae
genitive pluviae pluviārum
dative pluviae pluviīs
accusative pluviam pluviās
ablative pluviā pluviīs
vocative pluvia pluviae

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Asturian: lluvia, chuvia
    • Extremaduran: lluvia
    • Leonese: lluvia, chuvia
    • Mirandese: chuba
    • Old Galician-Portuguese: chuvia (see there for further descendants)
    • Spanish: lluvia
  • Vulgar Latin: *plŏvia (see there for further descendants)

Adjective

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pluvia

  1. inflection of pluvius:
    1. feminine nominative/vocative singular
    2. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Adjective

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pluviā

  1. feminine ablative singular of pluvius

References

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  • “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.

Spanish

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin pluvia. Doublet of lluvia.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈplubja/ [ˈplu.β̞ja]
  • Rhymes: -ubja
  • Syllabification: plu‧via

Noun

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pluvia f (plural pluvias) (poetic or obsolete)

  1. rain
  2. shower (precipitation)
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Further reading

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