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) it rains; it is raining.
    • c. 60 AD, Petronius, Satyricon, 44:
      ...et Iovem aquam exorabant. Itaque statim urceatim plovebat: aut tune aut nunquam: et omnes redibant udi tanquam mures. Itaque dii pedes lanatos habent, quia nos religiosi non sumus. Agri iacent.
      ...and they prayed to Jupiter for rain. And it rained bucketfuls: 'twas now or never, and they all came home, wet as drowned rats. But the gods all have gouty feet now, because we are not religious. So our fields lie baking.
      (a satire of Vulgar Latin speech)[2][3][4][5]

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,
plovēbat[n 1]		 — — —
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: *plovit (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, volume 2, 8th edition, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
  1. “piovere” in: Alberto Nocentini, Alessandro Parenti, “l'Etimologico — Vocabolario della lingua italiana”, Le Monnier, 2010, →ISBN
  2. Herman, József. 2000. Vulgar Latin. Translated by Wright, Roger. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. Page 17.
  3. Palmer, Leonard Robert. 1988 [1954]. The Latin language. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. Page 151.
  4. Posner, Rebecca. 1996. The Romance languages. Cambridge University Press. Page 202.
  5. Adams, James Noel. 1977. The Vulgar Latin of the letters of Claudius Terentianus. Manchester University Press. Page 1.
  6. Palmer, Leonard Robert. 1988 [1954]. The Latin language. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. Page 151.
  1. Vulgar Latin variant;[6] see quote above
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