ploia

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Occitan ploja, from Vulgar Latin *ploia, *plovia, from Classical Latin pluvia (“rain”). Doublet of piova and pioggia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈplɔ.ja/
• Rhymes: -ɔja
• Hyphenation: plò‧ia

Noun

ploia f (plural ploie)

1. (obsolete) rain

   Synonyms: pioggia, (regional or literary) piova

   • 1316–c. 1321, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XIV”, in Paradiso [Heaven]‎^[1], lines 25–27; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎^[2], 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     Qual si lamenta perché qui si moia
     per viver colà sù, non vide quive
     lo refrigerio de l’etterna ploia.

     Those who lament that here we die,
     in order to live up there, never saw
     the coolness of the eternal rain here.

Further reading

• ploia in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

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