Reconstruction:Latin/plovere

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 or a collateral form of Classical pluere.

Excluding the attestation below, first attested in Old French as pluveir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈplɔβere/

Verb

*plovere (Proto-Romance)

1. rain

Reconstruction notes

Several descendants reflect */ploˈβere/, with a change in verb class.

The form plovēbat (“it was raining”) is attested once. It is ambiguous between */ˈplɔβere/ and */ploˈβere/.

Related terms

• *plovia

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: ploae, ploai
  • Romanian: ploua
• Italo-Romance:
  • Corsican: piova
  • Italian: piovere
  • Neapolitan: chiòve
  • Sicilian: chiòviri
• North Italian:
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Ligurian: cêuve
    • Lombard: pieuv
    • Piedmontese: pieuve
  • Friulian: plovi
  • Ladin: plovei
  • Romansch: plover, plouver, plaver
  • Venetan: pióvar
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: plô(v)re
  • Oïl:
    • Norman: pliôre
    • Old French: plovoir, pluveir (archaic), plover
      • French: pleuvoir
    • Walloon: ploure
• Occitano-Romance:
  • Catalan: ploure
  • Gascon: plàver, plòver, plòger, plòir, plever, pleure
  • Occitan: plòure (all dialects)

    Auvergnat: pleure

    Limousin: pleure

• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: plever

    Ribagorçan: plloure, pllober

  • Asturian: llover, ḷḷover, chover (western)
  • Leonese: ḷḷover, chovere
  • Mirandese: chober
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: chover
    • Galician: chover
    • Portuguese: chover (see there for further descendants)
  • Spanish: llover
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian:

    Campidanese: prori, proi

    Logudorese: proghere, proere, pioghere, pioere

    Nuorese: proghere, proere, cioere

References

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “plŭĕre”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 9: Placabilis–Pyxis, page 82