pluvia

From Latin pluvia (“rain”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpluvja/

pluvia (plural pluvias)

1. rain

Compare pluvius (adjective).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpɫʊ.wi.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpluː.vi.a]

pluvia f (genitive pluviae); first declension

1. rain

   Synonym: imber

   • c. 99 BCE – 55 BCE, Lucretius, De rerum natura 6.671:

     tempestātēs pluviae

     tempests of rain

2. (later) a shower (of something)

First-declension noun.

• 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)

pluvia

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

pluviā

1. feminine ablative singular of pluvius

• “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.

Learned borrowing from Latin pluvia. Doublet of lluvia.

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

pluvia f (plural pluvias)

1. rain
2. shower (precipitation)

• “pluvia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024