Reconstruction:Latin/plovia

This Latin entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Latin

Etymology

From Classical Latin pluvia, with the stressed vowel taken from *plŏvĕre (“to rain”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈplɔβʲa/, /ˈplɔja/

Noun

*plovia f (Proto-Romance)

rain

Descendants

Insular Romance:
- Sardinian: proja
Balkano-Romance:
- Aromanian: ploai
- Istro-Romanian: ploie
- Megleno-Romanian: ploaiă
- Romanian: ploaie
Italo-Dalmatian:
- Corsican: pioghja
- Dalmatian: pluaia
- Italian: pioggia
- Neapolitan: chioggia
- Old Venetan: ploba, piuoba
- Sicilian: chioggia, chioggi
Rhaeto-Romance:
- Friulian: ploie
- Romansch: plievgia
Gallo-Italic:
- Ligurian: cieuvia
- Old Ligurian: pobia
- Old Lombard: piobia
- Piedmontese: piobbia
Gallo-Romance:
- Northern:
  - Franco-Provençal: ploge
  - Old French: pluie (see there for further descendants)
- Southern:
  - Catalan: pluja
  - Occitan: pluèja, plueja, pluoja, ploja, pleja
    - Gascon: pluja
Ibero-Romance:
- Aragonese: plevita, pluya

References

Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “llover”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume III (G–Ma), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 733
Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “plŭvia”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 9: Placabilis–Pyxis, page 106