pluie
Appearance
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle French pluye, from Old French pluie, from Vulgar Latin *plo(v)ia.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]pluie f (plural pluies)
- rain
- (figuratively) loads of things
- Hyponym: déluge
- Il a reçu une pluie de messages de recruteurs cherchant à le débaucher.
- He received a flood of messages from recruiters looking to poach him.
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- ⇒ Haitian Creole: lapli
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “pluie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old French
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Vulgar Latin *plo(v)ia.
Noun
[edit]pluie oblique singular, f (oblique plural pluies, nominative singular pluie, nominative plural pluies)
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Categories:
- French terms inherited from Middle French
- French terms derived from Middle French
- French terms inherited from Old French
- French terms derived from Old French
- French terms inherited from Vulgar Latin
- French terms derived from Vulgar Latin
- French 1-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:French/i
- Rhymes:French/i/1 syllable
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French feminine nouns
- French terms with usage examples
- Old French terms inherited from Vulgar Latin
- Old French terms derived from Vulgar Latin
- Old French lemmas
- Old French nouns
- Old French feminine nouns