Etymology

pluvial

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Today it means: Of, pertaining to, or produced by rain. Full definition →

French pluvial ← Middle French pluvial ← Latin pluviālis
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The story

  1. Latin · derived frompluviālis“pertaining to rain”
  2. Middle French · derived frompluvial
  3. French · borrowed frompluvial
  4. English todaypluvial

Borrowed from French pluvial, from Middle French pluvial, borrowed from Latin pluviālis (“pertaining to rain”).

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