pluvius Latin · revision 32667

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Twelve Tables|origins=ine-pro *pleu-e/o-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈpɫʊ.wi.ʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈpluː.vi.us]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''pluvius''' (feminine pluvia, neuter pluvium); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|pluō|-ius|t1=to rain]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|pluō]] to [[itc-pro|*plow-e/o-|t=to rain]] and [[ine-pro|*pleu-e/o-|t=to swim, float]], used figuratively of pouring rain; he compares [[grc|πλέω|tr=pléō|t=to sail, swim]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and the TLL date it from the Twelve Tables, which deal with rainwater that does damage.^(de Vaan 2008)^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is of rain: ⟨aqua pluvia⟩ is rainwater, and Lucretius explains how rainy moisture gathers in high clouds.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) It is also rainy: Cato has rainy weather and Varro a rainy climate harmful to some crops.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) ⟨Pluvius arcus⟩ is the rainbow in Horace.^(OLD 2012) Ovid has Danae conceiving Perseus from the golden rain.^(OLD 2012) The TLL notes that it is rarer after Pliny the Elder; the Romance words for rain, such as [[m|es|lluvia]] and [[m|pt|chuva]], come from the feminine [[pluvia]].^(TLL) Church Latin glosses it rainy.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * Twelve Tables – of rainwater that does damage.^(de Vaan 2008)^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato of rainy weather.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius of rain in the clouds.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace of the rainbow.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Of [[m|en|rain]];^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) ''aqua pluvia'', rainwater.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # [[m|en|rainy|alt=Rainy]], bringing rain;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995) ''pluvius arcus'', the [[m|en|rainbow]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # Falling like rain.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[pluo|alt=pluō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}