pluvious

English

Etymology

From Latin pluviōsus (“rainy”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈpluː.vi.əs/

Adjective

pluvious (comparative more pluvious, superlative most pluvious)

Involving or relating to rain; rainy.
- 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:
  In places ouer colde And pluuyous, olyues is to done To kitte, and mosse awey be rased wolde.

Translations

of or pertaining to condition of heavy rain

Spanish: pluvioso (es)

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