pluvial

Borrowed from French pluvial, from Middle French pluvial, borrowed from Latin pluviālis (“pertaining to rain”).

pluvial (comparative more pluvial, superlative most pluvial)

1. Of, pertaining to, or produced by rain

   Synonyms: ombro-, pluvio-

2. (geology) occurring through the action of rain

• Carnian pluvial episode
• pluvial lake

• pluvious

pluvial (plural pluvials)

1. (geology) a rainy period

Inherited from Middle French pluvial. In the sense of “rain, rainy” since the late 15th century. The liturgical use is older and stems from Old French pluvial (12th c.), a borrowing from Latin pluviālis.

• IPA^(key): /ply.vjal/

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pluvial (feminine pluviale, masculine plural pluviaux, feminine plural pluviales)

1. pluvial, (relational) rain-

   Synonyms: ombrique, ombro-, pluvaire, pluvio-

   eaux pluviales (originating in, formed of, or coming from fallen rain) ― rainwater

   érosion pluviale (caused by rainfall) ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

• Not to be confused with pluvieux, which describes that which is characterised by high or significant rainfall, particularly of a climate, a period of time or a place.

• pluie

pluvial m (plural pluviaux)

1. (Roman Catholicism) cope

   Synonym: chape

• “pluvial” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
• “pluvial” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
• Jouy, Alain & De Foucault, Bruno, 2019. Dictionnaire illustré de botanique. Biotope Éditions, Mèze, →ISBN., p. 220.
• “pluvial” in Dico en ligne Le Robert.
• “pluvial”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /pluˈvial/ [pluˈfi.al]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: plu‧vi‧al

Borrowed from English pluvial, from French pluvial, from Old French pluvial, from Latin pluviālis (“pertaining to rain”).

pluvial (comparative lebih pluvial, superlative paling pluvial)

1. pluvial: of, pertaining to, or produced by rain; occurring through the action of rain

pluvial (plural pluvial-pluvial)

1. pluvial: a rainy period

Borrowed from French pluvial (“cope; rainy”), from Latin pluviālis (literally “rainy”). Compare German Pluviale.

pluvial (plural pluvial-pluvial)

1. (Catholicism) cope: a long, loose cloak worn by a priest, deacon or bishop when presiding over a ceremony other than the Mass.

• “pluvial” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Learned borrowing from Latin pluviālis.

• Hyphenation: plu‧vi‧al

pluvial m or f (plural pluviais)

1. (relational) rain; pluvial

   águas pluviais ― rainwater

• chuva

Borrowed from French pluvial, from Latin pluvialis.

pluvial m or n (feminine singular pluvială, masculine plural pluviali, feminine and neuter plural pluviale)

1. stormy

Borrowed from Latin pluviālis. See also lluvia.

• IPA^(key): /pluˈbjal/ [pluˈβ̞jal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: plu‧vial

pluvial m or f (masculine and feminine plural pluviales)

1. (relational) rain; pluvial

   agua pluvial ― rainwater

• “pluvial”, 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