Reconstruction:Latin/plovia

This Latin entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Latin

Etymology

From Classical Latin pluvia, with the stressed vowel taken from *plŏvĕre (“to rain”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈplɔβʲa/, /ˈplɔja/

Noun

*plovia f (Proto-Romance)

1. rain

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: ploai
  • Istro-Romanian: ploie
  • Megleno-Romanian: ploaiă
  • Romanian: ploaie
• Dalmatian:
  • pluaia
• Italo-Romance:
  • Corsican: pioghja
  • Italian: pioggia
  • Neapolitan: chioggia
  • Sicilian: chioggia, chioggi
• Padanian:
  • Friulian: ploie
  • Ligurian: cieuvia
  • Old Ligurian: pobia
  • Old Lombard: piobia
  • Old Venetan: ploba, piuoba
  • Piedmontese: piobbia
  • Romansch: plievgia
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: pluja
  • Aragonese: plevita, pluya
  • Franco-Provençal: ploge
  • Old French: pluie (see there for further descendants)
  • Gascon: pluja
  • Occitan: pluèja, plueja, pluoja, ploja, pleja
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: proja

References

• Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “llover”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume III (G–Ma), Gredos, →ISBN, page 733
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “plŭvia”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 9: Placabilis–Pyxis, page 106