pluvious

English

Etymology

From Latin pluviōsus (“rainy”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpluː.vi.əs/

Adjective

pluvious (comparative more pluvious, superlative most pluvious)

1. Involving or relating to rain; rainy.
   • 1440, Duke Humphrey, “Book VI May”, in Mark Harvey Liddel, editor, The Middle-English Translation of Palladius De Re Rustica‎^[1], Berlin: E. Ebering, translation of De Re Rustica by Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus Palladius, published 1896, page 172:

     In places ouer colde And pluuyous, olyues is to done To kitte, and mosse awey be rased wolde.

Translations

of or pertaining to condition of heavy rain

• Spanish: pluvioso (es)