pluit

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *plowō, from Proto-Indo-European *plew- (“to flow, float, wash”); see also Latin linter (“bath, trough, boat”), Ancient Greek πλύνω (plúnō, “to wash”), Lithuanian pìlti (“to pour”) and German fließen (“to flow”).[1] See Old Armenian լուանամ (luanam, “to wash”).

Pronunciation

Verb

pluit (present infinitive pluere, perfect active pluit or plūvit); third conjugation, impersonal, no passive, no supine stem

  1. (impersonal) to rain; to be raining

Conjugation

   Conjugation of pluit (third conjugation, no supine stem, impersonal, active only)
indicative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present — — pluit — — —
imperfect — — pluēbat — — —
future — — pluet — — —
perfect — — pluit,
plūvit
— — —
pluperfect — — pluerat,
plūverat
— — —
future perfect — — pluerit,
plūverit
— — —
subjunctive singular plural
first second third first second third
active present — — pluat — — —
imperfect — — plueret — — —
perfect — — pluerit,
plūverit
— — —
pluperfect — — pluisset,
plūvisset
— — —
imperative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present — — — — — —
future — — pluitō — — —
non-finite forms active passive
present perfect future present perfect future
infinitives pluere pluisse,
plūvisse
— — — —
participles pluēns — — — — —
verbal nouns gerund supine
genitive dative accusative ablative accusative ablative
pluendī pluendō pluendum pluendō — —

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Vulgar Latin: *plovere (see there for further descendants)

References

  • “pluit”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • pluit in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • pluit in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
  1. “piovere” in: Alberto Nocentini, Alessandro Parenti, “l'Etimologico — Vocabolario della lingua italiana”, Le Monnier, 2010, →ISBN
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