pluvius

From pluit (“to rain”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpɫʊ.wi.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpluː.vi.us]

pluvius (feminine pluvia, neuter pluvium); first/second-declension adjective

1. rainy, bringing rain

First/second-declension adjective.

pluvius m (genitive pluviī or pluvī); second declension

1. The inner court of a dwelling, usually open to the sky and capable of collecting rainwater.

Second-declension noun.

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• pluvia

• “pluvius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pluvius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “pluvius”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “pluvius”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “pluvius”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray