pluvia

Interlingua

Etymology

From Latin pluvia (“rain”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpluvja/

Noun

pluvia (plural pluvias)

1. rain

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Latin

Etymology

Feminine form of pluvius.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈplu.u̯i.a/, [ˈpɫ̪uː̯iä]
• (modern Italianate 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

Descendants

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) 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

(deprecated template usage) 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.