Meanings
adjectivepluvious (comparative more pluvious, superlative most pluvious)
comparative more pluvious · superlative most pluvious
- Involving or relating to rain; rainy.
In places ouer colde And pluuyous, olyues is to done To kitte, and mosse awey be rased wolde.
1440, Duke Humphrey, “Book VI May”, in Mark Harvey Liddel, editor, The Middle-English Translation of Palladius De Re Rustica, Berlin: E. Ebering, translation of De Re Rustica by Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus Palladius, published 1896, page 172
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Latinpluviōsus
- Latinpluviōsus
- Englishpluvious
Borrowed from Latin pluviōsus (“rainy”).
More words from Latin
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German Regen-
- Regen-of or pertaining to condition of heavy rain
Spanish pluvioso
- pluviosoof or pertaining to condition of heavy rain
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