pluvieux
Appearance
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle French pluvieux, from Old French pluviex (13th c.), from Latin pluviōsus. The regular descendant of this is Old French plujos, which would have yielded modern *plugeux; compare Catalan plujós. By analogy with pluie, there was also a byform pluios (Middle French pluyeux), in which /v/ may have been inserted after plovoir; compare the Middle French variants plouvieux, pleuvieux. However, the form may also be of learned origin and was, at any rate, reinforced by its Latinate shape.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]pluvieux (feminine pluvieuse, masculine plural pluvieux, feminine plural pluvieuses)
- rainy (characterised by rain)
Usage notes
[edit]- Not to be confused with pluvial, which describes that which has fallen rain as its origin (e.g. eaux pluviales, rainwater as a collective) or cause (e.g. erosion resulting from rainfall).
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “pluvieux”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- “pluvieux” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
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