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Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Occitan ploja, from Vulgar Latin *ploia, *plovia, from Classical Latin pluvia (“rain”). Doublet of piova and pioggia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈplɔ.ja/
- Rhymes: -ɔja
- Hyphenation: plò‧ia
Noun
ploia f (plural ploie)
- (obsolete) rain
- Synonyms: pioggia, (regional or literary) piova
1316–c. 1321, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XIV”, in Paradiso [Heaven], lines 25–27; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:Qual si lamenta perché qui si moia
per viver colà sù, non vide quive
lo refrigerio de l’etterna ploia.- Those who lament that here we die,
in order to live up there, never saw
the coolness of the eternal rain here.
Further reading
- ploia in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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