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English
Etymology
From Latin pluviōsus (“rainy”).
Pronunciation
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