pluo Latin · revision 5859

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=inherited|attested=Plautus|origins=ine-pro *plew-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈpɫu.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈpluː.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''pluō''' (present infinitive pluere, perfect active pluī or plūvī); third conjugation, no supine stem^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|itc-pro|*plow-e/o-|t=to rain]], [[inh|ine-pro|*pleu-e/o-|t=to swim, float]].^(de Vaan 2008) Cognate with [[grc|πλέω|tr=pléō|t=to sail]] and [[sa|प्लवते|tr=plávate|t=floats]].^(OLD 2012) The present [[m|la|pluit]] was probably formed from the compound verbs, since one would expect *plovit, as with [[fluō]].^(de Vaan 2008) The sense supposes that “to float” was used of pouring rain.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Plautus, who says it had rained a lot.^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It was mostly impersonal, ''pluit'' “it rains”, and also meant to fall like rain, as Virgil's acorns raining from a shaken oak, and to rain down stones or blood, the prodigies Livy reports.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Early and late Latin also used it personally.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Plautus and Livy have a perfect ''plūvit''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus says it had rained heavily.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil compares hail to acorns raining from an oak.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy reports rains of stones.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # (impersonal) To [[m|en|rain]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # To fall like rain, rain down.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[dēpluō]]

+ * [[impluō]]

+ * [[perpluō]]

+ * [[pluor]]

+ * [[plutor]]

+ * [[pluvius]]

+ * [[repluō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[plūma]]

+ * [[fluō]]

+ * [[plōrō]]

+ * [[en|pluvial]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}