pluvia

Interlingua

Etymology

From Latin pluvia (“rain”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpluvja/

Noun

pluvia (plural pluvias)

1. 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

1. rain

   Synonyms: imber, tempestās pluvia

2. (later) a shower (of something)

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	pluvia	pluviae
genitive	pluviae	pluviārum
dative	pluviae	pluviīs
accusative	pluviam	pluviās
ablative	pluviā	pluviīs
vocative	pluvia	pluviae

Derived terms

• pluviālis
• pluviāticus
• pluviātilis
• pluviōsus

Related terms

• pluit
• pluvius

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

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

Adjective

pluviā

1. 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)

1. rain
2. shower (precipitation)

Related terms

• llover
• lluvia
• pluvial
• pluvioso

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