"rain" in seven languages
Meaningrain
Spanish
lluvia
/ˈʝubja/
fem.inherited
French
pluie
/plɥi/
fem.inherited
Italian
pioggia
/ˈpjɔddʒa/
fem.inherited
From a spoken variant *PLOVIA.
Portuguese
chuva
/ˈʃuvɐ/
fem.inherited
Romanian
ploaie
/ˈplo̯aje/
fem.inherited
Catalan
pluja
/ˈpluʒə/
fem.inherited
English
rain
/ɹeɪn/
native English · Old English regn
English → ItalianrainpioggiaNot relatedDifferent sources — learn this one fresh. But English has relatives: pluvial, pluviometer.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
PLUVIAM‘rain’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
A textbook PL- word: Spanish ll-, French pl-, Italian pi-. The verbs follow suit: llover, pleuvoir, piovere.
English relatives: pluvial, pluviometer
Sound laws at work
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In a sentence
- esEn otoño hay mucha lluvia.
- frEn automne, il y a beaucoup de pluie.
- itIn autunno c'è molta pioggia.
- ptNo outono tem muita chuva.
- roToamna plouă mult.
- caA la tardor hi ha molta pluja.
- enThere is a lot of rain in autumn.