pluvia
التعريفات والمعاني
== Interlingua ==
=== Etymology ===
From Latin pluvia (“rain”).
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /ˈpluvja/
=== Noun ===
pluvia (plural pluvias)
rain
== Latin ==
=== Etymology ===
Ellipsis of tempestās pluvia (“rainy weather”), from pluvius (“rainy”).
=== Pronunciation ===
(Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈpɫʊ.wi.a]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈpluː.vi.a]
=== Noun ===
pluvia f (genitive pluviae); first declension
rain
Synonyms: imber, tempestās pluvia
(later) a shower (of something)
==== Declension ====
First-declension noun.
==== Derived terms ====
==== Related terms ====
==== Descendants ====
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)
=== Adjective ===
pluvia
inflection of pluvius:
feminine nominative/vocative singular
neuter nominative/accusative/vocative plural
=== Adjective ===
pluviā
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.
== Spanish ==
=== Etymology ===
Learned borrowing from Latin pluvia. Doublet of lluvia.
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /ˈplubja/ [ˈplu.β̞ja]
Rhymes: -ubja
Syllabification: plu‧via
=== Noun ===
pluvia f (plural pluvias) (poetic or obsolete)
rain
shower (precipitation)
==== Related terms ====
=== Further reading ===
“pluvia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025